304 OLDER MESOZOIC FLORAS OF UNITED STATES. 
Class GINKGOALES. 
Family GINKGOACE2. 
Genus BAIERA Friedrich Braun. 
BAIERA MULTIFIDA Fontaine?" 
Pl. XLII, Fig. .4. 
(2) 1857. Noeggerathia striaia Emm.: American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 127, fig. 96. 
1883. Baiera multifida Font.: Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, Mon. U. 8. Geol. Sur- 
” vey, pp. 87, 118, pl. xlv, fig. 3; pl. xlvi; pl. xlvii, figs. 1, 2; pl. liii, fig. 1. 
Emmons gives a description in American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 127, 
fig.96, of afragment, which he calls Voeggerathia striata. In Mon. U.S. 
Geol. Survey, Vol. VI, p. 118, I expressed the opinion that this is a 
portion of Baiera multifida, a plant found in the Older Mesozoic of 
Virginia. I did not find in the collection the original of Emmons’s 
figure, but did see a fragment with Emmons’s field label marked Baiera. 
This specimen, given in Fig. 4, is too poorly preserved to permit a posi- 
tive determination of it. It is a carbonaceous film that shows no 
nerves, but only striation. It may be a Baiera, but it is most likely a 
stem of some kind. 
Class CONIFER. 
Family TAXACE 4. 
Genus CEPHALOTAXOPSIS Fontaine. 
CEPHALOTAXOPSIS CAROLINENSIS Fontaine n. sp. 
Pl. XLII, Fig. 5. 
There is in Emmons’s collection a fragment of slate carrying an 
impression of a conifer. It is without label, and there is nothing to 
show the locality yielding it. It is, however, apparently from Lock- 
ville, to judge from the character of the rock. This plant impression 
does not seem to have been described by Emmons, as it is distinctly 
different from any of those given in American Geology, Pt. VI. Itis 
nearest to Emmons’s Pachypteris, but is not this plant. The fossil in 
question is apparently a new species of Cephalotaxopsis, much like C. 
magnifolia of the lower Potomac formation, and it may be the ances- 
tral form of that plarit. The following description of it may be given, 
based on the fragment of an ultimate twig 1 cm. long, which is the 
only portion of it that was found: 
Stem rather slender, but rigid. Leaves apparently all in one plane, 
1As the type of Emmons’s Noeggerathia striata was not found at Williams College, it can only be 
admitted with doubt into the synonymy, and the names left as they were. 
L. FW. 
