226 OLDER MESOZOIC FLORAS OF UNITED STATES. 
Edward Hitchcock, jr., mentioned above, and gives a figure of the 
whole frond (pl. v, fig. 1), showing the radiating structure, and another 
(pl. vii, fig. 1) of a small segment more enlarged than that previously 
published. 
In the same work (p. 8) he mentions a cone found in the quarries of 
Mr. Roswell Field at Turners Falls, which he thought similar to some 
described in Europe from the Wealden. A sketch of this cone and of 
some coniferous twigs from the same locality, made by Mr. F. A. 
Lydston, is introduced on pl. vii (fig. 2). Professor Fontaine, in a 
letter dated February 7, 1891, expresses the opinion that the twigs 
here figured belong to Cheirolepis Muensteri, and that the cone may 
have been that of a species of Palissya of the type of P. aptera Schenk. 
From the date of the Ichnology of New England there seem to 
have been nearly thirty years during which no additional paleobo- 
tanical discoveries were made in the Connecticut Valley. In 1885 Mr. 
H. H. Hendrick, a member of the Meriden Scientific Association, found 
in the Durham shales the fruit of a cycadean plant, a brief notice of 
which was published by the Rev. J. H. Chapin, of Meriden, president 
of the association, in the proceedings for that year.’ The specimen 
was sent to Dr. J. S. Newberry, who described and figured it in his 
Fossil Fishes and Fossil Plants (p. 92, pl. xxiv, fig. 4) under the name 
of Cycadinocarpus Chapini. Mr. Chapin recorded this fact in a later 
volume’ of the same series in-which the original announcement was 
made. 
On March 28, 1887, Dr. Newberry presented to the New York 
Academy of Sciences a very brief account of the results at which he 
had arrived in his study of the paleontology of the Triassic beds. An 
abstract of this paper appeared the same year.’ It contains a list of 
the plants that had been obtained from both the New Jersey and the 
New England beds, all of which were fully treated in the work on 
which he was then engaged. 
. The above enumeration brings the record of paleobotanical discovery 
in the Trias of the Connecticut Valley and New England areas down 
‘to the date of Dr. Newberry’s Monograph of the Fossil Fishes and 
Fossil Plants, to which reference has already been made (supra, p. 222). 
In this he gives a sketch of the Triassic, and includes 17 species of fossil 
plants. They were collected at Sunderland, Massachusetts, at Dur- 
ham and Middletown, Connecticut, and at Newark and Milford, New 
Jersey, and are treated in a thorough and systematic way, being illus- 
trated in six plates with very excellent figures. Through this work 
we are therefore at length placed in possession of a considerable body 
1Proceedings and Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Connecticut, 1885-86, Vol. 
II, Meriden, 1887, p. 29. 
2Vol. IV, Meriden, 1891, p. 62. 
8The fauna and flora of the Trias of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley: Trans. N. Y. Acad. 
Sci., Vol. VI, 1886-87, pp. 124-128. 
