( 405 ) 
Heinrich Ries briefly mentions these deposits and says, on page 45: 
‘¢ The owner claims to have frequently dug up leaves”; and later,* 
on page 166: ** The writer has found leaves (referable to Lucalyp- 
tus) in the clays at Northport.” Subsequently the locality was 
personally visited in company with Mr. Ries and a few specimens 
were found, which were provisionally determined and listed, in a 
paper by Mr. Ries in the School of Mines Quarterly.t These 
determinations were hastily made and unfortunately the matrix was 
such that it disintegrated and all but one or two of the specimens 
were destroyed. The species determined were: Paléurus tntegri- 
foltus Hollick, Palturus sp. ?, aes et Heer, Protaeotdes 
daphnogenotdes Heer, Vie sp.?, HWelliamsonia sp.?, and 
Celastrophyllum sp.? Those that were found to be sufficiently 
well preserved have been recently subjected to more careful exami- 
nation and are included, with those subsequently collected, in the 
figured descriptions which follow. 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIES 
Dammara Northportensis sp. nov. 
(PLATE 70, FIGS. 1, 2.) 
Scales rounded kite-shaped, about 8 mm. long by 7-9 mm. wide 
at top; incurved above, narrowed to an obtuse base and provided 
These little cone-scales are referred to the genus Dammara, in 
common with other similar organisms (. doreadis Heer, FI. Foss. 
Arct. 6: 54. pl. 97, f. 5; D. microlepis Heer, tb¢d. 55. pi. go, 
J. 5; D. Cliffwoodensis Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 16: 
128. pl. rz, f. 5-8. 18947), although their true affinities are prob- 
ably with other coniferous genera, represented in the flora by leafy 
twigs and branches. Newberry was inclined to consider certain 
similar remains as belonging to Juniperus macilenta Heer, or some 
conifer closely closely resembling it (Fi. Amboy Clays, Monog. U. 
S. Geol. Surv. 26: 47), but until the actual association of cones 
and branches has been definitely determined it would seem wiser to 
include all these scales under one generic name. 
* Microscopic organisms in the clays of New York State. /67d. 13: 165- 
169. pl. 3, 4. 1894. 
On the occurrence of Cretaceous clays at Northport, L.I. S. of M. 
Quart. 15: 353, 354. 1894. 
