388 IIEER ON THE CRETACEOUS FLORA OF GREEiNLAND. 



Sparganiiim crcfaceura, IT. 

 Zingiberites pulchellus, H. 

 Populus Berggreni, H. 

 P. hyperborea, H. 

 P. stygia, H. 

 Mjn-ica Thulensis, H. 

 M. Zenker! (Ett.). 

 Ficus protogsea, H. 

 Sassafras arctica, H. 

 Proteoides longus, H. 

 P. crassipes, H. 

 P. vexans, H. 

 P. granulatus, H. 

 Credneria, sp. 

 Andromeda Parlatorii, H. 

 Dermatophyllites borealis, H. 

 Diospyros prodromus, H. 

 Myrsine borealis, H. 

 Panax cretacea, H. 



Cliondrophylliim Nordcnskiold, 



H. 

 C. avbiculatum, H. 

 Magnolia Capellinii, H. 

 M. alternans, H. 

 Myrtophyllum Geinitzii, H. 

 Metrosideros peregrinus, H. 

 Sapindus prodromus, H. 

 Rhus microphylla, H. 

 Legurainosites prodromus, H. 

 L. phaseolites, H. 

 L. cassiaeformis, H. 

 L. Atanensis, H. 

 L. coronilloides, H. 

 L. amissus, H. 

 Phyllites linguaeformis, H. 

 P. laivigatus, H. 

 Carpolithes scrobiculatus, H. 



3. — Note. — Caulopteris punctata (Sternberg) a Cretaceous 

 Fossil, according to Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S. 



At page 7 of his " Beitriige zur Steinkolilen-Flora dor 

 " arktischen Zone " (K. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl., vol. xii., No. iii., 

 1874), Prof. O. Heer describes several fragments of a fossil 

 Fern-stem, found in rolled sandstone at Ujarasusuk, on the north 

 coast of Disco, where also some rolled blocks of sandstone con- 

 taining real Carboniferous plants {Sigillaria, &c.)have been found. 

 The Fern-stem above mentioned Prof. Heer refers to the same 

 species to which Stevnhevg' s ^^ Lepidodendro?i punciaiiim" from 

 Kaunitz in Bohemia belongs. This was entered in systematic 

 works as having come from tlie Coal-measures of that country, but 

 Dr. Fritsch, of Prague, has assured Mr. Carruthers, F.R.S., of the 

 British Museum, that it w\as derived from the Cretaceous (Upper 

 Greensand) beds of Bohemia, in which also two allied forms* 

 have been discovered by M. Dormitzen (see " Geological Maga- 

 zine," vol. ii., 1865, p. 485.) Another specimen of this Tree-fern, 

 which Mr. Carruthers refers to Goeppert's Caulopteris (as being 

 an older and better generic term than Pre si's " Protopteris "), was 

 discovered of late years in the Upper Greensand of Shaftesbury, 

 Wiltshire, and has been described by Mr. Carruthers in the 

 " Geol. Mag.," loc. cit., as Caulopteris punctata, with evidence 

 showing that it belongs to the same species as Sternberg's specimen. 



With these facts before us, and observing that the Disco spe- 

 cimens of Caulopteris (Protopteris) punctata (Sternb.) figured by 

 Prof. O. Heer (op. cit., pi. 5, figs. 1, 2, & pi. 6), are in their 

 yellowish-hrown colour decidedly different from the grey Carboni- 

 ferous fossils, Mr. Carruthers has suggested to the Editor that 



* AhopJiilina Kauniciana, Krejci, and Oncopteris Nettwalli, Kr. 



