42 FLORA OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK AND NEW ENGLAND. 



New Jersey horizons. The relatively broad and blunt leaves serve to distinguish 

 it, however, from the other species of Sequoia with which it is associated and 

 leave but little doubt in regard to its identity with the Greenland (Kome) speci- 

 mens figured by Heer (loc. cit.) . Our specimens indeed appear to resemble the latter 

 much more closely than do those referred to this species by Fontaine, from the 

 lower Cretaceous of Virginia. a As it has not been identified in any deposits of the 

 Old World Cretaceous, we may perhaps regard it as a Greenland-eastern North 

 America species. 



Locality: Gay Head, Marthas Vineyard. Collected by David White. Speci- 

 mens in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Sequoia Reichenbachi (Geinitz) Heer. 



PL II, fig. 40; PI. Ill, figs. 4, 5. 



Sequoia Reichenbachi (Gein.) Heer, Fl. Foss.Arct., vol. 1, 1868, p. 83, pi. 43, figs. Id., 2b, 5a, 5d,5dd, 8, 8b; 



Newberry, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 26 (Fl. Amboy Clays), 1895 (1896), p. 49, pi. 9, fig. 19; Hoi. 



lick, Trans. New York Aead. Sci., vol. 16, 1897, p. 128, , pi. 12, figs. 3b, 5; Berry, Bull. New York Bot. 



Gard., vol. 3, 1903, p. 59, pi. 48, figs. 15-17, 18?, 20; Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 31, 1904, p. 69, pi. 



4, fig. 8. 

 Araucarites Reichenbachi Gein., Charakter. Schichten u. Petref. Sachs.-Bohm. Kreidegeb., vol. 3, 1842, p. 98, 



pi. 24, fig. 4. 

 Sequoia Couttsim Heer. Hollick, Trans. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 12, 1892, p. 30, pi. 1, fig. 5. 



The cone here included (see PL II, fig. 40) is somewhat larger than any speci- 

 men of the species which I have seen elsewhere depicted, and hence this reference 

 may be questioned, but in regard to the leafy twigs there can hardly be any doubt 

 that they belong to the species as generally recognized. The genus Sequoia, how- 

 ever, needs careful revision, and if this is ever done it is probable that the number of 

 species will either be reduced or at least may undergo considerable rearrangement, 

 as may be seen merely by comparing certain figures of five Cretaceous species so 

 described or referred by Heer and Lesquereux alone. 5 If such a revision should 

 result in restricting or modifying the great horizontal and vertical range now neces- 

 sarily implied in the recognition of the validity of some of these species, it would 

 obviate some of the suspicions which I believe nearly all paleobotanists have enter- 

 tained in this connection. S. Reichenbachi alone, as we now recognize it, has a geo- 

 graphical distribution which includes the United States, Canada, Greenland, and 

 Europe, and a range in time which apparently includes the upper part of the Jurassic 

 and the whole of the Cretaceous period. 



Locality: Gay Head, Marthas Vineyard, PL II, fig. 40. Collected by David 

 White. Specimen in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Kreischerville, Staten Island, PL III, figs. 4, 5. Collected by Arthur Hollick. 

 Specimens in Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



a Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 15 (Potomac Fl.), p. 245, pi. 118, fig. 2; pi. 120, figs. 1-6; pi. 127, fig. 5; pi. 132, fig. 3. 

 bs. Reichenbachi (Gein.) Heer, loc. cit. and ibid., vol. 3 (Kreide-FL), pi. 12, fig. 7d; pi. 20, fig. 7a; pi. 22, fig. 5f; pi. 36, 

 figs. 1-8. 



S. sublata Heer, ibid., pi. 34, fig. la; ibid., vol. 6 (abth. 2), pi. 17, fig. 1. 



S.fastigiata (Sternb.) Heer, ibid., vol. 3 (Kreide-FL), pi. 27, figs. 5, 6; pi. 38, fig. 13. 



S. concinna Heer, ibid., vol. 7, pi. 51, fig. 9; pi. 53, fig. lb. 



S. condita Lesq., Eighth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey Terr., 1874 (1876), pi. 4, fig. 7. 



