PREFACE. 



The present work is a continuation of the series of 

 Catalogues of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum. 

 The fossils discussed are even more fragmentary than most 

 of those by which the Jurassic and Wealden Floras are 

 represented ; but the Cretaceous Flora is of so much 

 interest as affording pofssible links with the succeeding 

 Tertiary Flora, that even imperfect evidence is worthy of 

 the closest attention. The literature of the subject is 

 already voluminous, but so many names have been given 

 to these fossils without adequate definition, that it seems 

 unnecessary at present to do more than enumerate them. 

 The greater portion of Pnrt I. of the Catalogue is therefore 

 devoted to an exhaustive bibliography, containing many 

 references to published work which will not occur again 

 in the Descriptive Catalogue. 



A. SMITH WOODWARD. 



Depaktment of GEOLoer, 

 November, 1913. 



