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GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



On the Cretaceous Flora of Moletein, Moratia. By Dr. 0. Heer. 



[Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, April 21, 1868.] 



Eighteen species have been determined from these beds, namely, 

 one Pern, Gleichenia Quenstedti, Heer ; one Palm, Palmacites horridus 

 Heer (petiole only) ; four Abieteae, Sequoia Reichenbachi, Gein., sp. ; 

 S. fastigiata, Sternb., sp. ; Cunninghamites elegans, Corda, and Pinus 

 Quenstedti, Heer ; two Morese, Ficus MohUana, Heer, and F. Krausi- 

 ana, Heer ; one doubtful Polygonean, Credneria macrophyllaf Heer ; 

 two Laurinese, Daphnojphyllum Fraasi and D. crassinervium, Heer. 

 The other species are Aralia formosa, Heer ; Chondro'phyllum 

 grandi-dentatum, Ung., sp. ; Magnolia sjpeciosa, Heer ; M. amplifolia, 

 Heer; Myrtophyllum (Eucalyptus'^) Geinitzii, Heer; M. Schiibleri, 

 Heer, and Juglans crassipes, Heer. This flora is remarkable from 

 being the earliest in which Dicotyledonous plants are conspicuously 

 represented ; two-thirds of the species belong to this class, which is 

 not represented in the Wealden, and but sparingly in the Gault and 

 iN'eoeomian. The families to which these species belong are in no 

 way related to the Lower Cretaceous flora of Europe generally ; 

 among them the Magnolias and Myrtles hold a high position in the 

 vegetable scale. The fossil plants of Moletein are in an excellent 

 state of preservation, and the leaves are of large size, although it 

 might have been expected that the Dicotyledons next following the 

 Coniferse in time would be small-leaved forms. [Count M.] 



On the Fossil Flora of the Arctic Regions, by Dr. 0. Heer. 



[Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, April 21, 1868.] 



Prof. Heer has just published a description of this flora illustrated 

 by fifty plates, Dr. Ch. Cramer, of Zurich, contributing the descrip- 

 tion of the fossil woods. The Carboniferous flora is represented only 

 on Melville Island*; the Cretaceous only in North Greenland. 

 Miocene deposits with vegetable remains exist in North Greenland 

 (with fossil insects), Banlis' Land, Maclienzie, Iceland, and Spitz- 



* The Swedish expedition of last year detected Carboniferous strata both in 

 Bear Island and in Spitzbergen, and in the latter fossil remains of animals of 

 Triassic and Jurassic, forms. 



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