256 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the Would 



With the exception of the few woods described by Conwentz ' no recent 

 additions have been made to the Cretaceous floras of Sweden. The fol- 

 lowing species are recorded : 2 



Acerites ? cretaceus Nilsson 

 Alnites ? friesii Nilsson 

 Gomptonites f antiquus Nilsson 

 Cycadites nilssonianus Brongniart 3 

 Pinus nathorsti Conwentz 

 Salicites f wahlbergii Nilsson 

 Weichsclia erratica Conwentz 



England 



In England the whole of the Upper Cretaceous is of typically marine 

 origin and consequently has not yielded any land plants except a few fir 

 cones, drift wood and rare and fragmentary leaves of dicotyledons in the 

 Lower Chalk. These have been mentioned in a few scattered papers, 4 

 and as the British Museum has recently undertaken a report on Cre- 

 taceous floras ° no attempt will be made to list the few and unsatisfactory 

 forms in the literature, especially since in their present state they offer 

 nothing of either botanical or geological significance. 



1 Conwentz, H., Untersuchungen iiber fossile Holzer Schwedens. Kgl. Svenska 

 Vetens. Akad. Handl. Bd. xxiv, 1891. 



2 List copied from Brongniart, A., Tableau, 1849, p. 111. 



4 Nathorst in his Geology of Sweden figures this form, referring it to the 

 genus Dewalquea. 



3 Nathorst in his Geology of Sweden figures this form, referring it to the 

 tion of the southeast of England. Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, London, vol. ii, 

 1846, pp. 51-54, pi. ii. 



4 Mantell, G. A., Description of some Fossil Fruits from the Chalk Forma- 

 Upper Greensand of Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire. Geol. Mag., vol. ii, 1865, pp. 

 484-487, pi. xiii. 



The Plant Remains of the Upper and Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) 



Formations in England. In Dixon's Geology of Sussex, ed. ii, 1878, pp. 277-282. 



Gardner, J. S., On Fossil Flowering or Phanerogamous Plants. Geol. Mag., 

 dec. 3, vol. iii, 1886, pp. 495-503. Also, Rept. Brit. Assn., Birmingham, pp. 

 241-250 and plate. 



6 Stopes, M. C, Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum 

 (Nat. Hist.). The Cretaceous Flora, part i, Bibliography, Algae and Fungi, 

 London, 1913. 



