GEOLOGICAL SKETCH. 13 
Among the conifers apparently two or three are common to the northern 
and southern Triassic basins. Palissya Braunii, Endl., occurs in North Car- 
olina, and a fine specimen of it is figured by Fontaine on Plate L of his 
monograph. I have a still finer specimen from the quarries at Newark, 
N. J., where it seems to be common; and, although the coarse sandstone 
has not often preserved the foliage, what I suppose to be portions of its 
trunks and branches are very numerous. 
The plant which Fontaine considers identical with Cheirolepis Miinsteri, 
Schimper, is found at Durham and many other places in Connecticut, as 
well as in Massachusetts and New Jersey. As I have shown in my notes 
on the Triassic plants, this is probably not a Cheirolepis, but a Pachyphyllum; 
but there is no question of its occurrence in all the northern and southe. n 
basins. 
On the other hand, among the small number of plants from the Trias ot 
New Jersey and Connecticut are two or three which have not yet been found 
at the South. Of these the most important is a species of Otozamites, which 
is rather common at Durham, but not yet found elsewhere. — Its fronds are 
‘one to two feet in length by one to three inches wide. When it was first 
found, many years ago, I was unable to distinguish it from Otozamites brevi- 
jolius Fr. Braun, one of the most characteristic plants of the Rheetic beds of 
Bamberg, Baireuth, and other places. Recently Count Saporta has sep- 
arated the larger fronds with narrow pointed pinnules from the smaller 
with shorter rounded pinnules (all of which were formerly attributed to O. 
brevifolius), and has made them the type of his species Olozamites latior. 
These correspond precisely in size, form, and nervation with our Durham 
plant, and we may therefore accept this as another species common to our 
Triassic beds and the Rheetic of Germany and France, contributing an ad- 
ditional fact to the already sufficient proof of the parallelism that has been 
before reported. 
The relations of the Triassic beds of the Atlantic coast to those of the in- 
terior and the western margin of the continent can hardly be established 
without larger collections of fossils from western localities. The Triassic 
strata underlying the Indian Te erritory, northern Texas, New Mexico, etc., 
1Paléontologie Geneene) Végétaux, aah 2, p. 130, Pls, 97, 98.) 
