294 L. F. Ward—Mesozoic Dicotyledons. 
Br species are enumerated, and Von Otto” in his Addita- 
te, 1852—54, also dese ribed Proteaceze from the Quader of 
eacandik while Miquel? i in 1853 eee a few Dicotyledons 
from the upper Cretaceous of Limbur, 4 
n 1856 Dunker™ described and fgared in the Paleonto- 
graphica four species from Blankenburg in addition to those of 
Zenker, and one cluster of fruit which he believed to belong to 
Oredneria, and to indicate strongly that those ancient plants 
belonged to the Poly gonacee, Zenker had divined that they 
might be amarantaceou 
One year later Stichler reviewed in the Palwontographica 
the whole aa of the Cretaceous flora of the Harz mountains, 
a o all previous results the discoveries made by 
Hampe, a sataamiist of hans aay tiictcg in the marls near that 
place. Out of the veel oat for f Credneria he carves a 
new genus which he call is Ba ingahanibest and of which be — 
makes eight species. Ee admits seven species of Credneria, 
and figures several others which he calls new species, but with- 
out assigning specific names to the ; 
Thus far America had contributed nothing to the flora of the 
‘Soeadinny but in 1858 Heer described in the proceedings of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" eight species of 
Dicsiylodbns which had been collected by Doctor Hayden in 
nsas and Nebraska. These, however, he erroneously be- 
lieved to be Miocene. 
The next year Mr. Lesquereux" contributed a paper to this 
Journal in which a number of fossil hear By from Nanaimo, Yan-— 
fe AAsimmonte: ri Flora dis Quadergebirges in Sachsen, von Ernst von Otto. 
Heft . erage 4, p. te a. 
@ fos fae n het ne es pe hertogdom Limburg, Haarlem, 1853. 
Verhand. Geol ee rt Nederl. j pp. 3 ae 
ber an nzenreste aus jy Quad prercrr you Panera yon oa 
witel Donker: Paleeontographica, iv, 1856, pp. 179-183, tab. xxxfi- _ 
mntniss der ie teria Flora des Kreidogebines i 
iss, von August Wilhelm Sree Palzeontographica, VI PP. oh ‘Tat. ix-X¥- 
16 Fossil Plants of me Ayr T theadeken beds of Kan i Nobraski ae ue 
Oswald —_ Proc. A Nat. Sei. Phil, 1858, pp. 265, 266. a. 
me fossil nse, of recent formations, by L. Lesquereux, Am. Journ 
Sci. EG Put 1859, 59-# ~ 
vid Deseriptions of fossil plants collected by Mr. gad Gibbs, ae 
U. §. Northwest Boundary Commission under Mr. hibald Campbell, U 
Guava “a S. Newberry. Boston Journ. Nett tae, Vii, 1863, PpP- 
§24, 
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