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The foregoing list includes 7 ferns, including the important genera 

 Matonidium and Onychiopsis. which represent Lower Cretaceous types 

 that survived into later times in this area, the Matonidium is peculiar to 

 the Moravian beds and the Onychiopsis, fortunately represented by fruit- 

 ing specimens, is peculiar to the Bohemian-Moravian Cenomanian. There 

 are 8 gymnosperms, mostly common and wide-ranging species. The 3 

 monocotyledons include two species referred to the palms. There are 39 

 Dicotyledonas, the largest genera being Daphnophyllum (3 sp.), Magnolia 

 (3 sp.), Eucalyptus (4 sp.), Aralia (5 sp.), and Platanus (9 sp.). One 

 misses the species of Brachyphyllum, Cinnamomum, Salix. Celastro- 

 phyllum and the Lauraceae and Proteaceae that characterize the North 

 American Cenomanian flora. Twenty-eight of the species are peculiar to 

 the Moravian area. Of the 31 with an outside distribution, 18, or over 

 50 per cent, are types of the Perucer Schichten or Lower Cenomanian 

 beds of Bohemia. Twelve occur in the Dakota sandstone, 9 in the Baritan 

 formation, 9 in the Atane beds of Greenland, 7 in the Cenomanian of 

 Saxony, 7 in the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama, 6 in the Magothy 

 formation, 4 in the Middendorf beds of South Carolina, 3 in the Black 

 Creek beds and 1 in the Eutaw formation of the eastern Gulf. As might 

 have been expected, the flora is identical with the Perucer flora and is 

 clearly a fragment of the more extensively preserved flora of this age 

 from northern Bohemia. The Moravian flora contains a considerable 

 element common to North America, but has remarkably few elements 

 common to the Cenomanian beds of Saxony and Silesia. 



Dalmatia 



The fossil plants collected by Bucic on the Island of Lesina off the Dal- 

 matian coast, and forwarded to the Geologisehen Keichsanstalt at Vienna, 

 were described by Kerner 1 in 1895. The plants are either wrongly 

 identified or else more than one horizon is represented. The character 

 of the materials as shown in photographs would indicate that an abundant 



1 Kerner, Fritz von, Kreidepflanzen von Lesina. Jahrb. kk. geol. Reichs. 

 Bd. xlv, Hft., 1, 1895, pp. 37-58, pi. i-v. 



