252 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



new caledonia 

 Lignites said to be partly Upper Cretaceous in age contain fragmentary 

 plant remains which, according to Zeiller, 1 include the following : 

 Alnites 

 Cinnamomum 



Podocarpium tenuifolium Ettingshausen 

 Podozamites cf. latipennis Heer 

 Sassafras or Araliopsis 



The Podozamites would seem to confirm the Mesozoic age of these 

 deposits, but since the so-called Cretaceous floras of New Zealand and 

 Australia are in such an unsatisfactory condition they cannot afford facts 

 for secure generalizations. 



ASIA 



Upper Cretaceous rocks continuing upward without observable uncon- 

 formities from the Cenomanian into the Eocene are widely distributed 

 in Japan. They are all, however, of marine, rather shallow-water, origin. 



The only known fossil plants occur as petrified fragments in nodules 

 imbedded in shale on the island of Hokkaido (Yezo). 2 The geology of 

 this area has been discussed by Yabe. s The plants, very probably of 

 Emscherian or slightly younger age, have been made known through the 

 efforts of Stopes and Eujii, 4 the former author having made several con- 

 tributions to this subject. 5 Suzuki ' has also described an interesting 

 petrified fungus as well as two new conifers from these rocks. 



1 Zeiller, R., Note sur quelques empreintes vegetales des couches de charbon 

 de la Nouvelle-Caledonie. Bull. Soc. Geol. France (ser. iii), tome xvii, 1889, pp. 

 443-446. 



2 Stopes, M. C, Plant-containing nodules from Japan. Quart. Jour. Geol. 

 Soc. London, vol. lxv, 1909, pp. 195-205, pi. ix. 



3 Yabe, H., Jour. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, vol. xviii, 1903, pp. 1-55, pi. i-vii. 



4 Stopes, M. C, and Fujii, K., Studies on the Structure and Affinities of 

 Cretaceous plants. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. xx, B, 1910, pp. 1-90, 

 pi. i-ix. 



5 Stopes, M. C, The Internal Anatomy of Nilssonia orientalis. Annals of 

 Botany, vol. xxiv, 1910, pp. 389-393, tf. 1, pi. xxvi. 



Stopes, M. C, and Kershaw, E. M., The Anatomy of Cretaceous Pine Leaves. 

 Ibidem, pp. 395-402, pi. xxvii, xxviii. 



Stopes, M. C, Further Observation on the Fossil Flower, Cretovarium. 

 Ibidem, pp. 679-681, pi. lvi, lvii. 



Suzuki, Y., On the structure and affinities of two new conifers and a new 

 fungus from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido (Yezo), Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 vol. xxiv, 1910, pp. 181-196, pi. vii. 



