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the deposits, with a number of plates and text-figures of the 

 plants. In 1861 Bosquet enumerated a hundred species from 

 the Limbiirg Chalk of Maestricht and elsewhere. 



ITALY. 



Eossil Algae and Cj-cads are the principal plants described 

 from the Oretaoeoua of Italy. In 1891 Bozzi wrote a paper on 

 the Cietaceous Flora which was illustrated with two plates. 

 The most important work is that of Oapellini and Solms-Laubaoh 

 (1892) dealing with the Bennettiteee, some of which are of 

 Cretaceous age. 



PORTUGAL, 



The Cretaceous plants of Portugal are of special interest 

 because among them are Dicotyledons, supposed to be the earliest 

 to reach Europe. Neocomian or Weald^n plants from Almargem 

 and elsewhere were described by Heer (1881), Cenomanian 

 Dicotyledons were described in 1888 by Saporta, who subse- 

 quently (1891) gave a brief account of the "most ancient 

 European Dicotyledons" of Cereal, and in 1894 published his 

 classic Memoir. De Lima (1901) also pubjisbgd a shoft paper 

 on Senonian plants from this country, 



RUSBIA, 



In Eichwald'g wor)£ on the fossil Elora of Eiissia (1853, I860, 

 1861, 1862, 186S) he dealt with a nijmber of Cretaceous plaijta, 

 mostly of Feocomian age, Mercklin (1856) described petrified 

 woods with their structure preserved, and Krendowsky (1880) 

 described iji Bussiaa and figured several new specjes of Cretaceous 

 plants, 



SWEDEN, 



Surprisingly few fossil plants of Cretaceous age are known 

 from this country, though the other Mesozoio deposits are very 

 rich in such remains. Ntlsson (1824) described and flgured 

 soine plants from the Greengajid of Scania, but did not name 

 them fully and they have been re-^naroed from time to time, 

 Nathorst mentions and re-figures some of these in his works on 



