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note on pp. 694-696 (1. c.), regarding it as substantially identical 
with Feistmantel’s “ Portion of a stem of a coniferous plant,” and 
comparing it with the genera Clathraria, Omphalomela, Cycadeo- 
myelon, etc., of other authors. Dr. Ward's discussion should be 
read by all ho may be interested in learning the wide range of 
opinion which has been expressed in relation to this and apparently 
similar material. "Whatever may be thought, however, of the generic 
identity of our specimens with the remains included in the above 
mentioned genera by foreign authors, there can scarcely be any doubt 
that the two species of Feistmantelia from the Cretaceous of the 
United States!? belong in the same category with our material from 
Kreischerville and definitely relegate all to the Coniferales and prob- 
ably to the genus Pinus. 
Figure 8, Pl. 3, shows a fragment of one of our pieces, natural 
size, which superficially may be seen to somewhat resemble a dismem- 
bered cycadaceous cone. 
Figure 5, Pl. 22, gives a sufficient illustration of the internal struc- 
ture of such remains in transverse section, X 15. They consist of 
a ground substance which appears to be phloem tissues, although its 
state of preservation does not make it possible to speak with entire 
certainty on this point, interlaced with a network composed of 
sheets of periderm. The periderm tissues may be seen with par- 
ticular clearness in this figure as meandering, almost homogeneous 
ribbands, which, with attentive examination, may be seen to present 
a transverse striation corresponding to the rows of phellem cells. In 
longitudinal section the same sort of peridermic meshwork is present, 
but the meshes are somewhat more elongated. The larger frag- 
ments very readily break up along the lines of the zones of periderm 
and fall into small oval pieces, which in an isolated condition have 
very much the appearance of seeds, thus presenting in mass th^ 
resemblance to a cycad cone, as previously noted. 
Locality: Drummond ри. Collected by E. C. Jeffrey and Arthur 
Hollick. Plate 3, fig. 8, specimen in Mus. Staten Island Assoc. Arts 
and Sci. Plate 22, fig. 5, specimen in Jeffrey collection, Cambridge, 
Mass. 
“Мет. Geol. Surv. India, Ser. XI’ (Jurassic (Oólitic) Fl. Kach) : 61. pl. zo. f. 2. 1876. 
% Р. oblonga Ward, туз Ann. Rept. U. $. Geol. Surv., 1897-98, Pt. II: 693. pl. 760. 
f. 10. 1899. 
Е. virginica Font.; Ward, Monog. U. S. Geol. Surv. 48' (Status Mesoz. Fl. U. 8., 
second paper): 484; ibid. 48°: pl. 107. f. 3 
