(58) 
& Tert. Fl. 32. pl. 7. f. 6, 66. 1883. ‘Cone of Sequoia” 
(not described) Ill. Cret. & Tert. Pl. pl. zz. f. 9. 
1878. Fl. Dak. Group, 36. 1892. 
Sequoia gracillina Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 50. f/. 9 
Sf. 1-3. 1896; Later Ext. Fl. 19. pl. 7g. f. 6; pl. 26. f. 
9(?).* 1898. 
The earliest mention of what is presumably this species is 
in a contribution by Newberry,t in which he refers to cones 
occurring in the Cretaceous Clays near Keyport (probably 
this is the Cliffwood locality) which he referred to Gecnztzia, 
and associated branches which he referred to UMmannia 
Goepp. In his posthumous Later Extinct Floras, these cones 
are referred to Sequoia gracillima; in the Flora of the Am- 
boy Clays, which was also issued posthumously, he makes the 
same reference and compares them to Heer’s Sequoza mac- 
rolepis (Fl). Foss. Arct. 7: 16. pl. 57. f. 13) considering 
them identical. 
Hollick describes two cones from Cliffwood as Geznztzia 
Jormosa Heer. They are much distorted and incrusted with 
pyrites and possibly should be referred to Seguota gracillima. 
Cones of this species are very common, the silicified ones 
washing out of the clay on the beach and the lignified ones 
occurring in considerable abundance in place in the clays. 
I have in my collection the remains of 32 cones, some of 
them nearly perfect and but slightly compressed, and I have 
refrained from collecting innumerable poor specimens seen. 
The largest is 8.5 cm. long, cylindrical, somewhat flattened, 
measuring 14 mm. in its shorter diameter and 18 mm. in its 
longer diameter. Most of them average nearly this thick- 
ness but are somewhat shorter, being about 7 cm. long. 
Matawan: Cliffwood, N. J. (foliage not found). 
Raritan (?): Keyport, N. J. 
Cheyenne Sandstone: Belvidere, Kansas. Dakota Group: 
Sioux City, Iowa. Cretaceous (Dakota?): Whetstone Creek, 
New Mexico. 
* Questioned by Hollick, editor of Newberry’s work. 
Proc. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist. 2: 10. 1873. 
