288 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



Kreideformation." His description of the gymnospermous plants was pub- 

 lished as a separate work in 1885 through a subvention from the com- 

 mittee for the investigation of the natural history of Bohemia and con- 

 stitutes a handsome folio volume of 34 pages and 13 plates. Several 

 shorter subsequent papers ' complete the enumeration of Velenovsky's con- 

 tributions to the elucidation of these floras. They are most important and 

 comprehensive, and the discussions are fuller and the figures better than 

 those in the later work of Fric and Bayer. Meanwhile Fric had pub- 

 lished his third volume of studies devoted to the Iserschichten, 2 and his 

 fourth volume devoted to the Teplitzer schichten. 3 In 1892 Englehardt 

 contributed a short paper on the Cretaceous plants in the collection of the 

 Geological Institute of the University at Prague, 4 and the next year Fric 

 published his fifth volume devoted to the Priesener schichten."' 



Velenovsky. who had collaborated with Fric, becoming more and more 

 engrossed in the study of the recent botany, his work on fossil plants was 

 taken up by Edvin Bayer of the Bohemian National Museum, who made 

 his contribution in this field of study in 1896." This was the basis for 

 the paleobotanical part of Fric's sixth volume of studies which treated of 



1 Velenovsky, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Pflanzen des Bohmischen 

 Cenomans, Sitz k.. bohm Gesell. Wiss., Prag, 1886 (1887), pp. 633-645, 1 pi. 



Velenovsky, Uber einige neue Pflanzenformen der bohmischen Kreideforma- 

 tion. Ibidem, 1888. 



Velenovsky, Die Fame der bohmischen Kreideformation, Abhandl. k. bohm. 

 Gesell. Wiss. 7 folge, Bd. 2, 1888, pp. 1-32, pi. 1-6. 



Velenovsky, Kvetena ceskeho cenomanu, Rozpravy KrSlceske Spolecnoski 

 nank., Bd. vii, 1889, pp. 1-75, pi. 1-6. 



2 Fric, Anton, Studien etc., iii. Die Iserschichten. Archiv. Naturw. Landesd. 

 Bohmen, Bd. v, Nr. 2, 1883, pp. 1-137, tf. 1-132 (only figs. 129-132 devoted to 

 fossil plants). 



3 Fric, Anton, Studien etc., iv. Die Teplitzer Schichten. Ibidem, Bd. vii, Nr. 

 2, 1889, pp. 1-119, tf. 1-167 (only figs. 166-167 devoted to fossil plants). 



4 Engelhardt, H., Ueber bohmische Kreidepfianzen. Mitt, aus dem Osterlande, 

 Neue folge, Bd. v, Altenburg, 1892. 



5 Fric, Anton, Studien etc., v. Priesener Schichten. Op. cit., Bd. ix. Nr. 1. 

 1893, pp. 1-134, tf. 1-194 (figures 177-194 devoted to fossil plants). 



"Bayer, Edvin, O rostlinstvu vrstev chlomeckych. (Ueber die flora der Chlo- 

 meker Schichten). Sitz. k. bohm. Gesell. Wiss., Prag, 1896, pp. 1-36. tf. 1-2L'. 



