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ci South Carolina. . . . The geology and floras have recently been described in detail by the 

 writer (Berry, E. W., - U.S. Geol. Survey,' Prof. Paper 84, 1914, pp. 5-98, pis. i-xiv). The floras clearly 

 constitute a single floral unit, which is made up of the following species : — ■ 



E. angusta Yelenovsky, E. Geinitzi (Heer) Heer, E. Wardiana Berry." (p. 213.) 

 " Georgia. ... A considerable flora has been described from different localities in the Eutaw 

 formation, considered by the writer to correspond with a part of the Black Creek formation of the Carclinas, 

 and to be of Turonian age. The following species have been recorded : — • 

 E. angusta Yelenovsky. 

 The Ripley formation, a series of littoral and marine shallow-water deposits with abundant faunas, 

 contains a meagre flora, probably of Emscherian age. The following species have been recorded : — ■ 

 E. angusta Yelenovsky/' (pp. 215, 216.) 

 " Alabama (including scattered floras from Mississippi and Tennessee). The presence of fossil 

 plants in the Tuscaloosa formation of western Alabama was announced by Winchell (Winchell, Alex., 

 Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., vol. x, 1856, p. 92) in 1856. The formation was described in detail by Smith 

 and Johnson (Smith, E. A. ; and Johnson, L. C, Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, No. 43, 1887) in 1887. " During 

 the course of their work large collections were made and forwarded to Washington, and a brief list of 

 species was drawn up in 1894 by Ward (in Smith, E. A., ' Geology of the Coastal Plain in Alabama,' 

 1894, p. 348). These collections did not, however, receive critical study until the writer took up the work 

 in 1907. Large additional collections were made, resulting in a complete account of this important flora. 

 (This is in course of publication by the U.S. Geol. Survey as a Professional Paper entitled ' Upper 

 Cretaceous Floras of the Eastern Gulf Area.') A brief abstract was published (Berry, E. W., Bull. Torrcy 

 Bot. Club, vol. xl, 1913, pp. 567-574) in 1913. The following species are enumerated (a considerable 

 number of these will remain nomina nuda until after the publication of the Professional Paper referred to) : — 

 E. Geinitzi (Heer) Heer, E. latifolia Hollick." (p. 218.) 

 c; Texas. The presence of fossil plants in the Woodbine sands along the Red River in north-eastern 

 Texas was announced by Shumard in 1868 (Shumard, B. F., Trans. Acad. Sei. St. Louis, vol. ii, 1868, 

 p. 140). The first account of plants from these beds was published in Knowlton (Knowlton, F. H., in Hill 

 (op. cit.), (pp. 314-318, pi. xxxix) in 1901 in Hill's great work on Texas (Hill, R. T., ' Geography and Geology 

 of the Black and Grand Prairies,' 21st Ann. Rept. U.S. Geol. Survey, pt. vii, 1901), and was based on 

 collections made by Hill and Vaughan. A small collection made by Stanton and Stephenson was described 

 by the writer (Berry, E. W. ; Bull. Torrcy Bot. Club, vol. xxxix, 1912, pp. 387-406, pis. xxx-xxxii) in 1912. 

 The flora, while limited, indicates synchroneity with a part of the Dakota sandstone of the West, the lower 

 Tuscaloosa of the eastern Gulf area, and the upper Raritan and Magothy of the northern Atlantic Coastal 

 Plain. It includes the following species : — 



E. Geinitzi (Heer) Heer." (p. 221.) 

 " .... In Alabama the following have been recorded from the Lower Eutaw : — 



E. havanensis Berry. (Also recorded from deposits of this age in Western Tennessee)." (p. 220.) 

 The following refer to European deposits : — 



" Saxony — Xicderschocna. One of the most celebrated localities for Upper Cretaceous plants is 

 at Niederschoena (Nieder Schona) between Dresden and Freiburg, and about 7 kilometres north-east of 

 the latter place. . . . Combining the identifications of the above-mentioned authors furnishes the 

 following list of species : — 



E. angusta Yelenovsky, E. Geinitzi Heer " (p. 279.) 



" The Maestrichtian flora (Cavloptychien Kreidc) is recorded from a large number of localities in 

 the Munster basin, some of which may have already been mentioned. These are not all of the same age, 

 the schichten, mergel and sandsteine der Baumberge and the Hugelgruppe von Haldem-Lemfordc bein<* 

 younger than the plattenkalk von Sendenhorst, the latter being said to be the youngest Cretaceous in 

 the basin. By combining the fossil plants that have been recorded from all these localities, the following 

 list is obtained : — 



E. Haldemiana Debey, E. inaiquilatera von der Marck." (p. 283.) 



We now turn to an important paper — " U.S. Geological Survey, Professional 

 Paper 112 (1919), Upper Cretaceous Floras of the Eastern Gulf Region in Tennessee, 

 Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia,-" by E. W. Berry, for three descriptions. Pre- 

 sumably the first is identical with E. havanensis Berry, referred to under " Maryland 

 Geological Survey, Upper Cretaceous " (1916), p. 220. 

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