260 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



Sequoia heterophylla Velenovsky 



Sequoia reicfienbachi (Geinitz) Heer 



Sphenolepis kurriana Schenk ? ' 



Sphenolepis sternbergiana Schenk ? ' 



Sty rax (2 spp.) ° 



Thuyites sp. nov. 6 



Viburnum ' 



Widdringtonites reichii (Ettingshausen) Heer (twigs and 4-valved cone) 



Emschcrian 

 The long-known plant beds of Beansset near Toulon from which 

 Saporta * identified several species were long considered of Turonian age 

 but are now considered to be referable to the Lower Senonian. The fol- 

 lowing species have been recognized : 



Araucaria toucasi Saporta 

 Cyparissidium gracile Heer 

 Lithothamnium amphirowformis Rothpletz 

 Lithothamnium gosaviense Rothpletz 

 Lithothamnium palmatum (Goldfuss) Gumbel 

 Lithothamnium racemosum (Goldfuss) Gumbel 

 Lithothamnium turonicum Rothpletz 

 Lomatopteris schimperi Schenk 

 Magnolia telonensis Saporta 

 Zosterites loryi Fliche 2 



Aturian 3 



The lignites of Fuveau which have been worked commercially for so 



long have furnished the following flora, described by Saporta : 4 



Abietites (seed) 



Anacardites alnifolius Saporta 



Carpolithus curtus Saporta 



1 Saporta, G. de, Le Monde des Plantes avant l'apparltion de l'homme. Paris, 

 1879, p. 198. 



2 From Devolny. Fliche, P., Note sur un Zosterites trouve dans le cretace 

 superieur du Devolny. Soc. Geol. Fr. (iv), tome ii, 1902, pp. 112-127, pi. ii. 



3 Campanian according to Saporta (1890). 



4 Saporta, G. de, Flore des lignites inferieurs, en etage &. lignite proprement 

 dit. Ann. Sci. Nat. botanique. 4 ser., tome xvii, 1862, pp. 191-202. (Etudes, 

 tome i, 1863, livre iii, pp. 38-49, pi. i; pi. ii, fig. 1.) 



Le Nelumbium provinciale des lignites cretaces de Fuveau en Prov- 

 ence. Mem. Soc. Geol. Fr., Paleont. Mem. No. 5, pp. 1-10, pi. i-iii (12-14), 1890. 



