264 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



Choffat * has recently announced the completion of a monograph includ- 

 ing these Upper Cretaceous floras for the Portuguese Survey by Laurent 

 of Marseilles, which unfortunately will not be published for some time 

 because of lack of funds. 



Aside from the various so-called fucoids, such as Halimenites, Chron- 

 drites, Gleichenophycos, Paleodyction, etc., described from the Cretaceous 

 rocks of the Alps and the Apennines, the Upper Cretaceous flora of Italy 

 is almost negligible. In connection with the elaboration of the inverte- 

 brate faunas of Vernasso near San Pietro in Venetia by Tommasi 2 several 

 fossil plants were discovered. Bozzi 3 in 1888 enumerated five species 

 from Vernasso in Friuli (Venetia). Three years later the same author 

 published a more complete paper J on the same subject. In a paper on 

 the fossils of the Senonian of the central Apennines Bonarelli 6 describes 

 and figures as Calamitopsis' (p. 1025, pi. v, fig. 8) an entirely worthless 

 specimen. Following is a list of the forms described from Vernasso : 



Araucaria macrophylla Bozzi (latifolia Bozzi) 



Arundo groenlandica Heer 



Cunninghamites elegans (Corda) Endlicher 



Cyparissidium gracile Heer 



Frenelopsis konigii Hosius 



Myrica vernassiensis Bozzi 



Phyllites proteaceus Bozzi 



Phyllites platanoicles Bozzi 



Rhus antiqua Bozzi (cretacea Bozzi) 



Sequoia ambigua Heer 



Sequoia concinna Heer 



'Choffat, B., O servico geologico de Portugal em 1914, p. xxi (17). 



2 Tommasi, A., Fossili Senoniani di Vernasso presso S. Pietro al Natisone. 

 Atti Instit. Veneto Sci. (vol. xxxviii), vol. ii, 1892, pp. 1089-1122, pis. unnum- 

 bered (fossil plants, p. 1119). 



3 Bozzi, L., La Flora Cretacea di Vernasso nel Friuli. Bol. Soc. Geol. Ital., 

 Atti, vol. xxxi, 1888, pp. 399-405, pi. vi. 



4 Bozzi, L., La Flora Cretacea di Vernasso nel Friuli. Bol. Soc. Geol. Ital., 

 vol. x, 1891, pp. 371-382, pi. xv, xvi. 



1 Bonarelli, G., I fossili senoniani dell' Apennino centrale che si conservano 

 a Perugia nella collezione Bellucci. Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, vol. xxxiv, 

 1899, pp. 1020-1027, 1 pi. 



This may be the Frenelopsis Konigii of Hosius. 



