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advisable now to disturb these references and thus to cause confusion. I am also 

 inclined to think that the leaf which Lesquereux calls Ficus proteoides a should be 

 included with this species and all perhaps be placed in the genus Ficus. This 

 change, however, would necessarily lead to an extended revision and rearrangement 

 which would be out of place in this work. Mr. Edward W. Berry has discussed the 

 subject in a recent paper on "A -Ficus confused with Proteoides" b in which views 

 similar to the above are expressed and the change of name to Ficus daphnogenoides 

 (Heer) is definitely proposed, but from the practical point of view of the geologist 

 the fact of identity between specimens is of far greater importance than the deter- 

 mination of their probable botanical affinities. 



Even if all the doubtful forms should be excluded, however, there would yet 

 remain a large number identical with each other — sufficient to indicate that the 

 species was a widely distributed and important element in the Cretaceous flora of 

 North America. Mr. Berry has included in the species a number of specimens found 

 in the clay marl at Cliffwood, N. J., c but their identity with what I regard as 

 representative specimens of the species as now recognized appears to be open to 

 question. 



Locality: Tottenville, Staten Island, PL XII, figs. 1, 2. Collected by Arthur 

 Hollick. Specimens in Mus. Staten Island Assn. Arts and Sci. 



Gay Head, Marthas Vineyard, PL XII, figs. 3, 4. Collected by David White. 

 Specimens in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Sea Cliff, Long Island, PL XII, fig. 5. Collected by Gilbert Van Ingen. 

 Specimen in Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



Dryandroides quercinea Velenovsky. 



PL VIII, figs. 18, 19. 

 Dryandroides quercinea Vel., Fl. Bohm. Krei deform., pt. 2, 1883, p. 8 (33), pi. 2 (10), figs. 8a-15. 



These specimens do not compare satisfactorily with all of Velenovsky's figures, 

 but they are sufficiently like his fig. 12 (loc. cit.) to warrant the reference. They 

 may also perhaps be compared with Dryophyllum (Quercus) Holmesii Lesq./* except 

 that in ours the dentition is coarser. 



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

 mens in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Banksites Saportanus Velenovsky. 



PL VIII, figs. 20, 21. 



Banksites Saportanus Vel., Fl. Bohm. Kreideform., pt. 2, 1883, p. 7 (32), pi. 1 (9), figs. 18-20. 

 Celastrophyllum Benedeni Sap. et Mar., Hollick, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 21, 1894, p. 58, pi. 177, fig. 3. 



It is perhaps somewhat hazardous to attempt a definite identification from such 

 fragments as those which are represented by our figures, especially as the species, 

 so far as I am aware, has not been reported from elsewhere in America, but the 

 close resemblance to Velenovsky's figures of specimens from the Cretaceous of 

 Bohemia seems to justify the reference. 



oMon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 17 (Fl. Dak. Gr.), 1892, p. 77, pi. 12, fig. 2. 



b Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 32, 1905, pp. 327-330, pi. 21. 



c Bull. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 3, 1903, p. 74, pi. 51, figs. 6-9. 



d Cret. and Tert. FL, p. 38, pi. 4, fig. 8. 



