250 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



This list includes one fern, two gymnosperms, three monocotyledons, 

 and fifty-six dicotyledons. The largest families are the Fagacece with ten 

 species, the Proteacece with eight, the Myrtacece with six, and the Legumi- 

 nosce with five. 



NEW ZEALAND 



Through the instrumentality of Julius Haast, at one time chief assist- 

 ant of Ferdinand von Hochstetter in the geologic work of the latter in the 

 provinces of Auckland and Nelson (1859), and afterward director of the 

 geological surveys of Canterbury and Westland, collections of fossil plants 

 were submitted to Ettingshausen 1 and partially described by him in 1887. 

 Plants from four localities were considered as Cretaceous, and thirty- 

 seven species, all new, were described. These came from the so-called 

 Cretaceo-Tertiary of Hector, 2 and the localities were Grey Eiver in West- 

 land, and Eeefton, Pakawan and Waugapeka in Nelson, all in South 

 Island. In the recently published Geology of New Zealand by Parks s the 

 Eeefton coals are referred to the Eocene Waimangaroa series and the 

 Pakawan plants to the brown coal or Oamaru series which is considered to 

 be of Miocene age. More recently Marshall 4 considers the Cretaceous to 

 be altogether wanting, so that a final conclusion must await further study. 



It appears that the late James Hector projected an account of the 

 fossil flora of New Zealand, 5 publishing various lists of names (nomina 

 nuda) and circulating a series of unnamed lithographic plates, some of 

 his figures being reproduced in text-books, as for example, in Park's 

 geology {op. cit.). 



Ettingshausen referred the following to the Cretaceous but, as pre- 

 viously pointed out, some of these are Tertiary and very probably some 

 of the plants which this author referred to the Tertiary may be Cretaceous 



1 Ettingshausen, Beitrage zur Kenntniss der fossilen Flora Neusellands. 

 Denks. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Bd. liii, Ab. i, 1887, pp. 141-192, pis. i-ix. 



2 Park, J., The supposed Cretaceo-Tertiary of New Zealand, Geol. Mag., dec. 

 v, vol. ix, 1912, pp. 491-498. 



3 Parks, James, The Geology of New Zealand, 1910. 



4 Marshall, P., Handbuch der Regionalen Geologie, vii, Bd. i, abt. 1911. 



s See on this point Arber's comments in Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc, vol. xvii, 

 pt. 1, 1913, p. 126. 



