258 MESOZOIC FLORAS OF UNITED STATES. 



Order FINALES. 



Family TAXACE^. 



Genus CEPHALOTAXOPSIS Fontaine. 



Cephalotaxopsis ramosa Fontaine. ? 



PL LXVIII, Figs. .5-7. 



1889. Cephalotaxopsis ramosa Font.: Potomac Flora (Monogr. U. S. Geol. Surv., 

 Vol. XV), p. 237, pi. civ, figs. 2, .3; pi. cvi, figs. 2, 4, 4a; pi. cvii, fig. 3; pi. 

 cviii, fig. 2. 



1894. Cephalotaxopsis magnifolia Font.? in DUler & Stanton: Bull.Geol. Soc. Am., 

 Vol. V, p. 4.50. (PI. LXVIII, Fig. 7.) 



Some very imperfect specimens of a plant with narrow, rigid, and 

 short leaves, which narrow gradually toward their bases and tips, were 

 found at localities Nos. 13, 14, and 17. With one exception all the 

 specimens show only portions of detached leaves. The exception is 

 the form depicted in PL LXVIII, Fig. 5. This specimen is a portion 

 of a stout twig, with the remains of several leaves that are still attached 

 to it. The narrowness of these leaves and their gradual tapering toward 

 their bases strongly indicate that this fossil is identical with Cephalo- 

 taxopsis ramosa Font., a plant of the lower Potomac of Virginia. The 

 amount of material is, however, too small and too imperfect to permit 

 a positive determination of the specific character of the plant. It 

 clearly has the character of Cephalotaxopsis and is different from the 

 other plants yielded by the Shasta group. 



PL LXVIII, Fig. 6, represents the terminal portion of a leaf, which 

 is the widest one found, and Fig. 7 is the small leaf formerh' referred 

 with doubt to C. magnifolia. 



Cephalotaxopsis ? rhytidodes Ward n. sp. 

 PI. LXVIII, Fig. 8. 



1894. Cephalotaxopsis sp.? Font, in Dfiler & Stanton: Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., VoL V, 



p. 450. 

 1895 [1896]. Cephalotaxopsis sp. Font, in Stanton: Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., No. 133, 



p. 15. 

 There are several imprints of a Cephalotaxopsis quite different from 

 that identified doubtfully with C. magnifolia. The leaflets are seen 

 only in fragments, but enough is shown to make certain that they were 



