WARD.) TRIASSIO PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA. 231 
The Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey for the 
year 1888 is largely devoted to the Triassic or red sandstone rocks, 
and mentions the occurrence of vegetable remains at a number of 
points, especially at Belleville, Little Falls, Pleasant Dale, Martins- 
ville, Pluckemin, Wilburtha, and Milford. 
‘The above embraces the greater part of the record of paleobotan- 
ical discovery in the Trias of New Jersey beyand what is noted in 
Dr. Newberry’s monograph. 
TRIASSIC PLANTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA. 
In Pennsylvania there are several localities-at which vegetable 
remains have been noted. 
In 1856 Mr. Isaac Lea gave an account’ of some observations of 
his made the previous year in this vicinity, where he found in dark 
shales, and associated with Posidonia, saurian teeth and footprints, 
‘‘impressions of plants, some of which belong to the Conifera [sic].” 
He continues: 
One of the cones was nearly 6 inches long and a ftll inch wide. These were 
accompanied by other plants of very obscure character, covering large portions of 
the surface of some of the layers. ; ; 
Mr. Lea also mentioned that he had observed the same red, black, and gray shales 
at Gwynedd, on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, where he found the same Posidonia 
and some of the samesobscure plants, impressions of which covered the surfaces of 
many of the rocks. A single specimen was obtained of a plant with long leaves 
somewhat resembling Noeggerathia cuneifolia Brongniart, which is from the Permian.’ 
More or less successful attempts must have been made to determine 
these plants collected by Lea, as Mr. Wheatley, in a paper read before 
the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences on February 20, 1861,° 
identified a number of them with forms described by Rogers and 
Emmons from Virginia and North Carolina. 
In his Older Mesozoic Flora, p. 116, Professor Fontaine says that, 
according to Professor Lesquereux, Ctenophyllum robustum (Emm.) 
Font. (Pterophyllum robustwm Emm.) occurs at Pheenixville, Pennsyl- 
vania, but he does not state where Professor Lesquereux has made 
this statement, and I have been unable to find any reference to it from 
that locality. 
Mr. Persifor Frazer, in his Geology of Chester County,* says that 
‘‘plants are numerous at one or two horizons in the Mesozoic for- 
mation; referable to Equisetes (horsetails); Zamites therefore Triassic; 
with lignitic fragments of conifers;” but he does not state the exact 
locality and only leaves it to be inferred that this refers to Pennsylva- 
nia, as he has been describing fossils of other kinds from Pheenixville. 
1Proc, Acad. Sci. Phil., Vol. VIII, April 15, 1856, pp. 77-78. 
2See also Am. Jour. Sci., 2d series, Vol. XXII, 1856, pp, 123, 422. 
3Remarks on the Mezozoic red sandstone of the Atlantic slope, and notice oh the disecvery of a 
bone bed therein, at Pheenixville, Pennsylvania, by. Charles M. Wheatley, M. A.: Am. Jour. Sci., 24 
series, Vol. XXXII, July, 1861, pp.41-48. (See p. 43.) 
4Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1883, C+, p. 213. 
