CRETACEOUS CONIFERALES 33 
of a sclerenchymatous sheath. On the whole the former supposition 
appears more probable. Figure 6, Pl. 27, shows a portion of the 
section shown in fig. 4, Pl. 27, Х 45. The very small wood elements 
can here be seen somewhat more clearly. There are no resiniferous 
elements present in the wood of this species and in this respect it 
resembles most of the Araucarineae described elsewhere in this 
Memoir. A longitudinal section of the wood, X 500, such as is 
shown in fig. 1, Pl. 28, makes it clear that here too we have to do 
with an araucarineous conifer of the same general type as Brachy- 
phyllum, for the characteristic type of pitting in the wood is unmis- 
takably present. Іп all of the examples of conifers with verticillate 
foliage and araucarineous internal structure, which we have found in 
the Kreischerville deposits, cortical resin canals are universally absent 
and in this feature as well as in their verticillate foliage they 
markedly resemble each other. Since our genus .Indrovettia is cer- 
tainly an araucarian, and since the same statement is true of the last 
described fragment and is probably true of the three similar twigs 
described above, which we have provisionally referred to the genus 
Thuites, it seems likely that other Cretaceous coniferous genera 
with verticillate leaves, viz., Moriconia, Inolepis, etc., are probably 
araucarineous as well. This probability can, of course, only become 
a certainty when it becomes possible to investigate the internal 
structure of the last mentioned genera. 
Locality: Androvette pit. Collected by E. C. Jeffrey and Arthur 
Hollick. Specimens in Jeffrey collection, Cambridge, Mass. 
Genus BRACHYPHYLLUM Brongniart 
BRACHYPHYLLUM MACROCARPUM Newberry 
Plate 4, figs. 12-14; Pl. 9, figs. 7, 8; Pl. 11, figs. 1, 2, 4, 5; Pl. x2, figs. 1-6; Pl. 13, fig. 1 
Brachyphyllum тасгосагрит Newb. Monog. U. $. Geol. Surv. 26 
(Fl. Amboy Clays) : 51, footnote. 1895.—Hollick and Jeffrey, 
Amer. Nat. 40: 201-203. pl. 3. f. 1-5; pl. 4. f. 1-6; pl. 5. f. 1-4. 
1906. 
Thuites crassus Lesquereux, Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 8 (Cret. 
and Tert. Fl.) :32. 1883. 
Brachyphyllum crassum (Lesq.) Lesq. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. то: 
34. 1887.—Newb. Monog. U. S. Geol. Surv. 26 (Fl. Amboy 
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