338 CALLITEINEAE [CH. 



cones were found. Similarly Widdringtonites gracilis Sap. and 

 W. creyensis Sap. from the Corallian and Kimeridgian of France^ 

 respectively are founded solely on sterile shoots. The specimen 

 figured by Eichwald^ from Jurassic rocks on the southern border 

 of bhe Caspian sea as Widdringtonites denliculatus has the habit of 

 an Araucaria and the supposed cone^ which may be some foreign 

 body not actually attached, affords no evidence of affinity to the 

 Callitrineae. Zeiller* describes a small fragment from Liassic beds 

 in the Commune of Cherveux bearing small rhomboidal decussate 

 leaves similar to Widdringtonites liassinus (Kurr) as figured by 

 Salfeld and to W. keuperianus, but the material affords no definite 

 indication of relationship to the Calhtrineae. 



Callitrites Reichii (Ettingshausen). 



This species, recorded from several Cretaceous localities in the 

 Eastern United States and elsewhere, is in many cases represented 

 only by slender sterile shoots and its position among the Coniferae 

 is by no means clearly established. It was founded by Ettings- 

 hausen* as Frenelites Reichii on some branched shoots from Cre- 

 taceous rocks in Saxony and afterwards described by Heer' from 

 the Patoot beds of West Greenland under the generic name 

 Widdringtonites though without satisfactory evidence in support 

 of relationship to Widdringtonia. This species is one of the com- 

 monest Conifers in the Amboy clays of New Jersey, but no cones 

 are figured by Newberry^ in his monograph except two small 

 examples which it is suggested may be immature microstrobili. 

 Velenovsky' figures sterile branches from the Perucer beds of 

 Bohemia and an ovate cone, 13 mm. long, with four valves, which 

 resembles a small cone of Aciinostrobus and those described by 

 Berry as Widdringtonites subtilis. Some of the twigs bear terminal 

 elliptical bodies regarded as male flowers. The leaves of this species 

 are usually spiral and, with the exception of the apex, closely 

 appressed. Callitrites Reichii is also recorded by Krasser^ from the 



1 S^iporta (8t) PJs. 201, 202. ^ Eichwald (68) p. 43, PI. iv. fig. 9. 



3 Zeiller (11) PI. n. fig. 6. * Ettingshausen (67) p. 246, PI. i. fig. 10. 



5 Heer (82) i. p. 13, PI. Lii. figs. 4, 5. 



« Newberry and Hollick (95) PI. vni. 



' Velenovskf (85) B. p. 27, Pis. vm., x.; (87) figs, 14r— 16. 



8 Krasser (96) B. p. 126, Pis xrv., xvn. 



