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how he can say “the fossil flora of Blankenburg is indeed strikingly Vike 
that of our lower Cretaceous strata,” (this Journal, (2], xxix, p. 211), 
a flora so wholly different from the present Europea an and Aseverieie, 
while living representatives still oceur in meagre of nearly all of the 
now known genera of the flora of Nebras 
3. If the relations of the strata and the fossil remains of animals make 
it indubitable that the fossiliferous sandstone in Nebraska and Kansas 
belongs to the Cretaceotis formation, it follows of course, that these 
plants have to be assigned to the Cretaceous flora. In this case the inter- 
. with the Msedaen flora of Europe; the Cretaceous pei ren 
would form a remarkable sxoephaunt We must, of course, not forget, that 
the Cretaceous flora of Europe has not been as yet vs st examined, 
and that many. new forms will shinkiiens yet come to light. The 
Tertiary flora shows such an abundance of insvipledeies, that in all pro- 
bability many more of its typical genera than are ee wn at pres- 
ent have their — forms in the Cretaceous epoch, among them, per- 
haps, some of those which came to our knowledge Sine } Kansas and Ne- 
braska. It is, however, worthy of notice, that the Eocene flora of Europe, 
(i.e, that of Mon é Bolca, of the Isle of Wight, of St. Zacharie in 
Frovence, and of Bore does not contain those e genera pr eit by 
Dr: Newberry (with the exception of Acer), and that they do 
their aera in Europe before the lower Miocene 1 epoch, ‘hil on 
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suppose here a nearer eh. RHE ch to the Tertiary Sore; than in oo lowest 
materials before us < énahl e us to assert, that the Cretaceous fe of Europe 
has an entirely different character from that of Nebraska, and I will try 
storily. 
We have in the Cretaceous flora of Europe; numerous and mostly pe- 
ian aaah differing in type from the present. European forms. We. 
notic them eis Gleicheniacez, (one genuin aap wiper 5 and 
large aia among wl b eichselia remin 
Cretaceous forms a peculiar feature. amen ssa ons we meet 
Palms, Paidatios and Scitamenee, (Cannopliite) 3 among the Gymno- 
also a considerable number w remind us of the © koecnonctse of 
Jurassic flora, (Cycadites, Pearptlon, 
and side { Coons and numerous peculiar Conifers, of which cues ms 
a , related to Sequoia, has spread ean cree. © 
cane forms which are closely allied to ndio-Austral 
