List op Cretaceous Plants found on Long Island. 



Serenopsis Kempii Hollick ; 

 Salix protea^folia v. flexuosa Lesq. 

 Salix purpuroides Hollick. 

 Juglans crassipes Heer. 

 Juglans arctica Heer. ? 

 Ficus protogaea Heer ? 

 Ficus Willisiana Hollick. 

 Protaeoides daphnogenoides Heer. 

 Lauras Plutonia Heer. 

 Laurus Omalii Sap. et Mar. 

 Laurus Newberryana Hollick. 

 Sassafras progenitor Newb. mss. ? 

 Sassafras acutilobum Lesq. 

 Cinnamomum Sezannense Wat. 

 Diospyi'os rotundifolia Lesq. 

 Diospyros primaeva Heer. 

 Myrsine elongata Newb. mss. 

 Andromeda Parlatoni Heer. 

 Viburnum mtegrifolmm Newb. mss. 

 Alalia transversinervia Sap. et. Mar. 

 Aralia patens Newb. mss.? 

 Aralia Nassauensis Hollick. 

 Myrtophyllum (Eucalyptus?) Geinitzi 



Heer. 

 Eucalyptus? nervosa Newb. mss.? 

 Dalbergia Rinkiana Heer. 

 Hymenaea Dakotana Lesq.? 

 Leguminosites constrictus Lesq. ? 



Leguminosites convolutus Lesq. ? 

 Colutea primordiales Heer. 

 Sapindus Morrisoni Lesq. 

 Cissites fomiosus Heer. ? 

 Palmrus integrifolius Hollick. 

 Zizyphus elegans Hollick. 

 Zizyphus Lewisiana Hollick. 

 Rhamnus? acuta Heer. 

 Celastrophyllum Benedeni Sap. et Mar. 

 Celastrophylium decurrens Lesq. ? 

 Grewiopsis viburmfolia Ward. 

 INlenispermites Brysoniana Hollick. 

 Magnolia speciosa Heer. 

 . Magnolia Capellini Heer. 

 Magnolia Isbergiana Heer. 

 Magnolia longipes Newb. mss. 

 Magnolia glaucoides Newb. mss. 

 Magnolia Van Ingeni Hollick. 

 Liriodendron primaevum Newb. 

 Liriodendron simplex Newb. 

 Liriodendron oblongifolium Newb. mss. 

 Tricalycites papyraceus Newb. mss. 

 Podozamites ? 

 Poacites ? 

 Cypentes ? 

 Typha ? 



Making a list of 50 species distributed 

 in 20 genera. 



Another feature with reference to the history of the fossil plants of 

 the island and which has not yet received its full share of attention is 

 the occurrence of Tertiary deposits of diatoms. Merrell, in his Ge- 

 ology of Long Island, etc. , was the first to mention the deposit found 

 at Glen Cove, and more recently Dr. A. M, Edwards has obtained 

 some rich findings from some deep cuts on the south side of the island. 



As the evidence to be derived from diatoms is most conflicting, I 

 refer those interested to the deposits found at Arverne by Dr. Edwards. 

 (See Diatoms in list.)-!^ 



IL Pine Bakrek Flora. 



In New Jersey there has been recognized for a number of years, 

 a peculiar flora, known as the Pine Barren Flora ; this was found to 

 grow in a more or less lestricted area, extending from New York to 

 Cape May and the mouth of the Delaware River, occupying a narrow 



* Also in note of H. Ries on Tertiary Clays at Glen Cove, Transactions Academy 

 of Sciences, Vol. XIH., p. 167. 



