SKETCH OF TRIASSIC FLORA. 
The number of fossil plants obtained from the Triassic rocks of the 
valley of the Connecticut and from New Jersey is not large, and as a gen- 
eral rule they are not well preserved. A sufficient number of fairly good 
specimens have, however, been collected at Sunderland, Mass., Durham 
and Middletown, Conn., and at Newark and Milford, N. J., to demand a 
brief notice. 
These include the following species: 
Schizoneura planicostata Rogers, sp. Otozamites brevifolius Fr. Braun. 
bo} ? 
Equisetum Rogersi Schimper. Cycadinocarpus Chapini Newb. 
Equisetum Meriani? Brong. : Pachyphyllum simile Newb. 
Clathropteris platyphylla Brong. Pachyphyllum beevifolium Newb. 
Palissya Braunii Endl. Cheirolepis Miinsteri Schimper. 
Palissya diffusa? Emmons, sp. Loperia simplex Newb. 
Baiera Miinsteriana Saporta. Dendrophycus Triassicus Newb. 
Baiera multifida Fontaine. Dioonites longifolius Emmons, sp. 
Otozamites latior Saporta. 
In addition to these are many ill-defined plant remains, some of which 
indicate genera and species new to science ; others are decorticated stems 
and branches, apparently of coniferous trees, probably Palissya. Some of 
these are quite plain and smooth, but others are marked with lozenge- 
shaped figures resembling a Lepidodendron from which the bark was stripped, 
while the outlines ef the rhomboidal leaf scars remained. These have been 
sometimes called Lepidodendra, but without warrant, and we have no evi- 
dence that any species of Lepidodendron passed from the Paleozoic into the 
Mesozoic Age. 
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