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their evident wide application in the study of fossil plants the 

 present paper is of unusual interest and value to every paleo- 

 botanist. G. e. w. 



9. Additions to the Paleobotany of the Cretaceous Formation 

 of Long Island. No. II; by Arthur IIollick. Bull. N. Y. 

 Bot. Garden, 1904, pp. 403-418, pis. 70-79. — Although not very 

 well conserved, these plant impressions from the Cretaceous 

 clays and shales of Northport, Manhasset Neck, Oyster Bay, etc., 

 add several new species to or otherwise extend the Cretaceous 

 mixed and transition florse of the Atlantic coastal region. 



g. r. w. 



10. Tertiary Lignite of Brandon, Vermont, and its Fossils; 

 by G. H. Pekkins. Bull. Geol. Soc. America, 1905, Vol. xvi, 

 pp. 499-516, pis. 86, 87.* — Describes macroscopically numerous 

 seeds unaccompanied by other fossils, and presumably of Middle 

 Tertiary age. Pinus, JVysxa, Juglans, Illicium, Hicoria, Gin- 

 namomum, and Aristolochia are represented, as well as some 

 seeds called Sapindoides, — evidently a quite recent flora with 

 some extinct species. (This material is in part structurally con- 

 served.) g. r. w. 



11. On Sutcliffia ins ignis, a new Type of Medulloseoe from 

 the Lower Coal- Measures ; by D. H. Scott. Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 19(i6, 2d Ser., Botany, Vol. vii, Pt. 4, pp. 45-68, pis. 7-10. — 

 This new megaphyllous genus of the Medullosese is based on a 

 short but well-conserved stem section from the colliery of Shore- 

 Littleborough, Lancashire, recently reopened in the interests of 

 Paleobotany (!), by the generosity of the owner. S. insignis is 

 monostelie, with a somewhat complicated system of large sur- 

 rounding "meristeles." But little secondary wood is present, the 

 stem probably being young. The foliar bundles are in all cases 

 concentric, with a tendency to take on a unilateral form; and the 

 xylem elements are ot very large size, in this respect suggesting 

 a not altogether remote resemblance to the centripetal xylem in 

 the leaf traces of Cycadeoidea. As at once characteristically 

 synthetic and perchance the most primitive of medullosan stems, 

 Sutcliffia is of decided interest. g. r. w. 



12. Fossil Plants of the Group Cycadofilices ; by David 

 White. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. (Quarterly Issue), 1905, Vol. 

 xlvii, Pt. 3, pp. 377-390, pis. liii-lv. — Mainly a compilatory de- 

 scription. Figures specimens of Sphenopteris (Lyginodendron) 

 IJreiiinghausii from the Pottsville near Quinnimont, West Vir- 

 ginia, and of Nenropteris (the foliage of Medullosa) from the 

 Poitsville at Warrior, Alabama. G. r. w. 



13. The S'-eds of Aneimites ; by Davtd White. Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll. (Quarterly Issue), Dec. 10, 1904, Vol. xlvii, pp. 322- 

 33 , pis. xlvii and xlviii. — This paper is of primary interest, as 

 containing the first descriptim of seed-bearing ferns, or "Pteri- 

 dusperms," f i om America. As determined from specimens from 

 the Thurmond formation (Lower Pottsville) of the mountain-side 



* See also p. 147. 



