30 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Frenelites Rechii Ettingsh. Kreidefl. Niederschóna 246. pl. г. f. 104- 
roc. 1867.—Hollick, Trans. М. Y. Acad. Sci. 12: 29. pl. I. f. 
23. 1892. 
This is apparently the most abundantly represented of any conif- 
erous species thus far found in the Kreischerville deposits. The 
remains occur in almost every layer of the plant-bearing beds in the 
Androvette pit, and relatively large masses of the delicate branchlets, 
generally more or less matted together, can often be obtained, 
although well preserved specimens are difficult to isolate from the 
lignitic debris. 
The exact botanical relationship of the genus has never been satis- 
factorily determined by any of the authorities who have studied and 
described it, although affinity with Frenela and with JJ'iddringtonia 
is inferred by Ettingshausen and Heer respectively, in the generic 
names which they adopted. 
Specimens are represented natural size by figs. 1-3, Pl. 5. Figure 
3 is that of a partly decorticated branch, with some of the smaller 
leafy branchlets attached, and fig. 4, on the same plate, shows a 
portion of a branchlet as it appears when enlarged under a hand lens, 
showing the phyllotaxy. 
Figures 7-11, Pl. 8, represent views of the external features of 
small twigs, X 10, which seem to be referable to this species. These 
figures resemble very strongly most of the published illustrations of 
Jl'iddringtonites, and since some of our twigs show internal structure 
it is possible to determine their true botanical relationship. 
Figure 3, Pl. 20, is a transverse section, X 40, of the specimen shown 
infig. 8, Pl. 8. Several of the leaves are included in the figure at dif- 
ferent planes of section. Оп the upper side of the figure one may be 
seen cut through its region of greatest expansion. On the opposite side 
a leaf appears as cut through its apex. On the sides of the figure are 
shown the bases of three other leaves. The xylem cylinder is small 
and contains a rather narrow pith, in which sclerotic elements are 
sometimes present, although none of these appears in the plane of 
the section. Figure 4, Pl. 20, shows a portion of the upper margin 
of fig. 3, Х 60. It is possible to make out here with some distinct- 
ness that a single resin canal is present in the leaf. Near it lies a 
fibrovascular bundle which is accompanied by dorsally directed 
borders of transfusion tissue. Figure 5, Pl. 20, shows the radial 
