CRETACEOUS CONIFERALES 43 
Locality: Androvette pit. Collected by E. C. Jeffrey and Arthur 
Hollick. Specimens in Jeffrey collection, Cambridge, Mass. 
Genus EUGEINITZIA gen. nov. 
Eugeinitzia proxima sp. nov. 
Plate то, fig. то; Pl. 25, figs. 1-3 
Remains consisting of peltate, usually six-sided cone scales, with 
a median depression occupied by a process similar to that found in 
the peltate end of cone scales of Sequoia; pelt attached to the axis 
of the cone by a relatively slender stalk; center of the stalk occupied 
by a fibrovascular cylinder surrounding a medullary core; resin pas- 
sages abundant in the cortical tissues, but wanting in the pith and 
in the wood of the central cylinder; a layer of periderm occupying, 
apparently, the lower side of the stalk. 
"These cone scales, of which we have found a considerable number 
of specimens, most of them in a fair condition of preservation, bear a 
superficial resemblance to those of Sequoia and are hardly distin- 
guishable from many similar scales referred to that genus and to the 
fossil genus Geinitzia by various authors in their descriptions of Cre- 
taceous plants, although we have not been able to definitely correlate 
our specimens with any particular species. 
Figure ro, Pl. 10, shows the external appearance and characters 
of one of these scales, X 5. The resemblance to Sequoia may be 
seen in the well-defined process which occupies the median depres- 
sion, while the six-sided outline of its peltate end is a feature strongly 
suggestive of Geinitzia. The stalk, by which the pelt is attached to 
the axis of the cone is, however, much slenderer than in Sequoia and 
more nearly like that of Geinitzia. There were no indications of 
the attachment of seeds, either to the stalk or to the peltate portion 
of the scale. 
Figure r, Pl. 25, is a transverse section, X 40, through the stalk 
of the cone scale shown in fig. 10, Pl. 10. The center of the figure 
is occupied by a fibrovascular cylinder surrounding a medullary core, 
just as is found to be the case in the cone scales of Sequoia. There 
are no resin canals in the pith or in the wood of the central cylinder. 
Resin passages are, however, abundant in the cortical tissues. On 
what appears to be the lower side of the stalk of the cone scale is a 
layer of periderm. Figure 2, Pl. 25, shows a transverse section, 
X 40, of the same cone scale at a slightly higher level. The woody 
