176 MESOZOIC FLORAS OF UNITED STATES. 



5. PLANTS FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 



[Under date of December 26, 1901, Professor Fontaine reported as 

 follows upon the collection made by Mr. Storrs in Trinity County, Cal. — 

 L. F. W.] 



I have examined the specimens collected by Storrs from California, 2 

 miles northwest of Slatonis. Most of them are shale fragments, with 

 distinct cleavage, and all have a more or less pronounced cleavage. 

 Nearly all of the imprints have suffered so much from maceration that 

 they show no character. They have evidently drifted far from their place 

 of growth. 



Brachyphyllum ? Storrsii Ward n. sp.« 



PI. XLV, Fig. 6. 



1903. Brachyphyllwn ? sp. Font, in Diller: Am. Journ. Sci., 4th ser., Vol. XV, p. 352. 



The best preserved imprints are cones which, in some cases, preserve 

 enough of the plant tissue to give an idea of their nature. The best 

 preserved of them have been much compressed and distorted by pressure, 

 which has caused a creep of the plant substance along the planes of 

 cleavage, so that it is impossible to determine positively even their generic 

 character. 



Besides the cones there are some poorly preserved bits of twigs which 

 probably belong to the same plant as the cones. There is a great difference 

 in the size of the cones. Some of them seem to be mature, some imma- 

 ture, and there appear to be some male strobiles. All the imprints which 

 show any recognizable features are strongly suggestive of Brachyphyllum. 

 They mary, however, belong to the genus which I described as Pagiophyl- 

 lum dubiwn from the Comanche of Texas, *" which Nathorst makes a new 

 genus, Pseudofrenelopsis.' If the cones belong to Pseudofrenelopsis 

 the species is probably different from the Comanche form, for the cones 

 now in question are decidedly larger. Their true size, however, is not 

 given in their present form, for they are mostly broadened by the creep of 

 the shale. The same creep has greatly distorted the form of the cone scales. 



(I As Professor Fontaine does not assign to this plant any specific name, and as it is likely to be the subject 

 of future discussion, I propose for it the name Brachyphyllum ? Storrsii, for the collector. — ^L. F. W. 



!> Notes on some fossil plants from the Trinity division of the Comanche series of Texas: Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., Vol. XVI, pp. 261-282. See p. 271, pi. xxxix, figs. 2-11. 



f Beitr. zur Geologic und Paliiontologie der Republik Mexico, von J. Feli.x und H. Lenk, Leipzig, 1893, 

 n. Theil, 1. Heft, pp. 51-54. 



