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Art. XXXVIII. — A Palm from the Upper Cretaceous of 

 Neio Jersey ; by Neil E. Stevens. 



The silicified palm stump which forms the basis of the 

 present study was presented to the Peabody Museum of Yale 

 University by Mr. R. W. Deforest in 1893. But it received 

 no special examination for some ten years, when Dr. Gh R. 

 Wieland made several sections from the roots. These sections 

 showed that the structure was unusually well conserved, and 



Fig. 1. 



Fig.]. Palmoxylon anchorus. Lateral view of entire specimen, x 2/5. 

 Photograph by G. E. Nichols. 



finally in the spring of 1911 the specimen was, at Dr.Wieland's 

 suggestion, turned over to the writer for definite study. The 

 various additional sections made by the writer for this study 

 have been deposited, together with the original sections and 

 the type, in the Paleobotanic Collections of Peabody Museum. 

 The fossil was found by Mr. Deforest on the beach at Sea- 

 bright, not far from Sandy Hook, and comes accordingly from 

 near the limit of the Upper Cretaceous outcrops on the 

 Jersey Shore. Other specimens, in less perfect preservation, 

 were seen, though the present specimen is the only one so far 

 recovered. The matrix appears to have been a marl, or per- 

 haps clay with little or no lime. This specimen (fig. 1) con- 

 sists of the much-eroded base of the trunk of a large palm with 



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