265 



present specimens, a number of which are here reproduced, come 

 from near Long Branch, N. J. They resemble somewhat Hicoria 

 microcarpa but are larger and thicker shelled. They also show 

 some points of resemblance to Hicoria villosa, a comparatively 

 recent segregate from Hicoria glabra. On the whole they are 

 closest to the latter species especially to those fruits of the latter 

 which are more symmetrical and not ficiform in shape. They 

 are queried since it is possible that they may represent some 

 intermediate or ancestral form. 

 Quercus cf. Phellos Linne. 



Berry, Journ. Geol. 15: 342. 1907. Amer. Nat. 41: 694. 

 pi. i.f. I. 1907. Amer. Jour. Sci. (iv), 29: 394. 1910. 



This oak is a common species of the Carolinian and Louisianian 

 zones ranging from southern New York to Florida and Texas. 

 It is a common fossil in the North Carolina Pleistocene and has 

 also been recorded from the Pleistocene of Alabama. The pres- 

 ent occurrence is based upon somewhat flattened cupules from 

 near Long Branch, N. J., whose specific identity is not established 

 with entire certainty. In the same deposits the writer has found 

 a number of immature Quercus fruits four to five millimeters in 

 diameter which may belong to this same species. 

 Vitis pseudo-rotundifolia sp. nov. 



Seed relatively slender, curved, pointed: Surface slightly 

 wrinkled: Inner face flat; outer face full and curved: Raphe 

 well marked: Length 6.12 mm: Width 3.20 mm.: Thickness 

 2.25 mm. 



This species of Vitis is distinct from any existing species known 

 to the- writer. It resembles in its 

 general proportions the seeds of Vitis 

 rotundifolia Michx., but is much 

 smaller and less rugose. If it repre- 

 sents an ancestral form of this species, 

 as is not improbable, the range in the 

 late Pleistocene was more extended 

 than at the present time since Vitis 

 rotundifolia finds its present northern 

 limit in southern Maryland almost 200 miles south of the oc 



Fig. 2. — Three views of seed 

 ( X3)oiVUis pseudo-rotundifolia 

 from Long Branch. 



