No. 471] CRETACEOUS PLANT REMAINS " 2a 
described by the earlier authors were all from Jurassic horizons 
but subsequently species were described from the Cretaceous,’ 
and it is with these that we are especially concerned. 
The question of generic identity between the several allied 
forms does not, however, come within the scope of this paper. 
The only matter which is of immediate concern is the fact that 
we have found at Kreischerville the leafy branches of a Brachy- 
phyllum and have been able to determine, for the first time, by 
means of its internal structure, the exact relationship which it 
bears to certain living Conifer. This species is the same so far 
as external characters are concerned, as that described by New- 
berry from the Amboy clays of New Jersey (B. macrocarpum 
Newb., loc. cit.), and it has also been found at Northport, 
Long Island, and at Cliffwood, N. J. A reproduction of New- 
berry’s fig. 1 (Joc. cit.) is shown on Plate 1, Fig. 15, and the North- 
port specimens on the same plate, Figs. 16, 17. These are all 
natural size. 
Plate 3, Figs. 1 a, b, c, shows three fragments of branches from 
Kreischerville, magnified about 6 times, and Fig. 2, on the same 
plate, shows one magnified about 10 times. 
Plate 3, Fig. 3, shows a piece of another branch magnified about 
the same as the latter, and illustrates particularly well the longi- 
tudinal converging strie characteristic of the leaves of Brachy- 
phyllum. 
Plate 3, Fig. 4, represents a transverse section through a rela- 
tively old branch, magnified by 8, in which the woody cylinder is 
well developed. The pith has largely collapsed, although it con- 
sists in large part of sclerotic cells. 
‘Plate 3, Fig. 5, shows a transverse section of a young branch, 
magnified by 15. Four leaves may be seen on the margins of the 
figure, and of these, those on the broad upper and lower surfaces 
of the branch overlap those on the margins, as they are cut through 
at a higher region. The leaves are attached to the surface of the 
stem by practically all of their ventral surface, with only a very 
’ Echinostrobus squamosus Vel., Gymnosp. Bohm. Kreidejorm., p. 16, pl. 6, 
figs. 3, 6-8, 1885; Thuites crassus Lesq., Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 32, 1883; Brachy- 
phyllum macrocarpum Newb., “Fl. Amboy Clays” (Monogr. U.S. Geol. Surv., 
vol. 26), p. 51, footnote, pl. 7, figs. 1, 2, 5, 7, 1895. 
