452 Pi'of. Nordenslciold — Expedition to Greenland. 



"All the places where these remains have been discovered (Kome, 

 Avkrusak, Angiarsuit, Karsok, Ekkorfat, Pattorfik) have the same 

 Flora, the character of which is marked by nnmerous ferns, among 

 which the Grleichenige (Gleichenia Rinhiana, Zippei, Gieseclciana) 

 play the chief part ; by a remarkable Cy cad (Zamites arctica) , magni- 

 ficent leaves of which are found, and by a large number of Conifers 

 [Finns Crameri, Sequoia BeicJienbacJiii, Widdringtonia gracilis, etc.), 

 and, in addition to this, by the almost total absence of Dicotyledons. 

 The fine new discoveries tend to confirm the opinion I (Heer) have 

 already expressed,^ that this Flora belongs to the Lower Cretaceous, 

 in all probability to the Urgonian strata. This is particularly shown 

 by the beautiful Cycad, Glossozamites Hoheneggeri, discovered at 

 Kome. The Greenland collections contain many specimens, which 

 resemble the plants from Wernsdorff, which belong to the Urgonian, 

 and have exactly the same character as those from Kome. Among 

 the most remarkable new species from the Greenland Lower Creta- 

 ceous, a fine Tceniopteris, n. sp., an Adiantum (both from Avkrusak), 

 and an elegant new Sequoia from Pattorfik, deserve special mention." 



Fi<3. 10. — Series of strata below Atanekerdluk. 



IL — The Atane strata (Upper Cretaceous, according to Heer). 



These strata occur on the southern side of Noursoak peninsula, 

 between Atanekerdluk and Atane, and probably also further on to 

 the north on the eastern side of the Waigat. Some few, and not 

 very clearly determinable, vegetable remains from Kome (750-1100 

 feet above the sea), and from the strata situated nearest the surface 

 at Kudliset^ (Eitenbenk coal-mine), probably belong to this forma- 

 tion, which contains more slate than either the subjacent Cretaceous 

 strata or the superimposed Miocene beds, besides sand and loose sand- 

 stone, but no traces of limestone. The thickest Coal strata in Green- 

 land—as well those at Atane (the richest I have seen in Green- 

 land) as those near the surface of the water at Ipiit, and probably 

 also those situated 750 feet above the sea at Kome — belong to this 

 period. The same is probably the case with the strata inclosing 

 retinite (not amber) at Hare Island. Small nodules of resin, how- 

 ever, occur in the Greenland Miocene. 



1 Heer's Flora Fossilis Arctica. 



^ The upper strata in the neighbourhood of Kudliset are Miocene. 



