308 The Upper Cretaceous Floras of the World 



At Pisino (Foiba), Istria, the Blatterkalk contains Dryandra, Banksia, 

 Lomatia, Rhamnus, Pisonia, Sapotacites, Andromeda, Myrica, Santalum, 

 Nerium, Apocynophyllum, and Protoficus. Stache {op. cit.) regards this 

 series as transitional from Cretaceous to Eocene, but the flora seems cer- 

 tainly to be of early Eocene age, and doubtless future field work will show 

 the presence of a stratigraphic break, just as it has shown a similar break 

 between the true Laramie, and the Denver and allied beds, in western 

 North America. 



THE BALKAN PENINSULA 



Bulgaria 



Upper Cretaceous fossil plants have been collected in connection with 



the study of the lignite beds of the Balkans by both Toula and de Launay. 



The amount of material is small, although it is not badly preserved and 



offers promise of a considerable flora when this little-known area shall 



have been thoroughly explored. The collections have been studied by 



Stur ' and Zeiller, 2 resulting in the following list: 



Aralia cf. anisoloba Velenovsky 



Aralia cf. coriacea Velenovsky 



Asplenium Jcersteri Debey and Ettingshausen 



Cunninghamites elegans Corda 



Dammarites bayeri Zeiller 



Ficus t 



Geinitzia cretacea Endlicher 



GleicJienia cf. gracilis Heer 



GleicJienia zippei (Corda) Heer 



Neritinium ? 



Pecopteris cf. haidingeri Debey and Ettingshausen 



Pecopteris (3 spp.) 



Proteophyllum launayi Zeiller 



Ternstramia crassipes Velenovsky 



RUSSIA 

 The Cretaceous formations of central Europe disappear beneath the 

 Tertiary and Quaternary cover in the plains of the Dniester, but appear 



1 Toula, F., Geologische TJntersuchungen in Centralen Balkan. Denks. k. 

 Acad. Wiss. Wein, Bd. lv, 1889, pp. 26, 33, pi. viii, figs. 10-12. 



2 Zeiller, R., Sur quelques empreintes vegetales de la Formation charbon- 

 neuse supracretacee des Balkans, Ann. des Mines, Xe serie, tome vii, 1905, 

 pp. 326-354, pi. vii. 



