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Heer ^ has described a leafy twig from the Patoot beds of Greenland 

 (Senonian) bearing a large solitary drupe-like fruit which he calls 

 CepJialotaxites insignis, an identification which Solms-Laubach * seems 

 to consider probable. Bertrand^ has described structural material of 

 fruits allied to Cephalotaxus under the name of Vesquia Tournaisii from 

 the Aachenian of Belgium and the present writer has described * similar 

 fruits which are common in the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern 

 Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



Fig. 12. — Sketch map of the world showing the approximate distribution of 

 the existing Taxaceae, horizontal lining = subfamily Taxeae, vertical lining = 

 subfamily Podocarpese. 



The existing genus Cephalotaxus Sieb. and Zucc, contains four 

 species confined to the Chinese-Japanese region. It was evidently much 

 more widespread in former geologic times and to it should possibly be 

 referred some of the leafy twigs included in the genus Taxites Bron- 



"■■ Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct, Bd. vii, 1883, p. 10, pi. liii, fig. 12. 

 ^ Solms-Laubach, Fossil Botany, 1891, p. 61. 



* Bertrand, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, t. xxx, 1883, p. 293. 



* Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. xxxvil, 1910, p. 187. 



