NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM THE 

 MATAWAN FORMATION. 



EDWARD W. BERRY. 



In a recent Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 1 I 

 have enumerated sixty-seven species of plants from the Mata- 

 wan formation (Mid-Cretaceous) describing fourteen species as 

 new to science. Additional collections from near Cliffwood, 

 New Jersey, the only locality within the formation where recog- 

 nizable plant remains haw been found, disclose numerous addi- 

 tions to this Flora, anion- which the following species have been 

 singled out as new ; and it has seemed best to publish them in 

 advance of more extended treatment which might be long 

 delayed. The remains are all from the lower portion of the 

 Matawan formation known as the Crosswicks ( lavs. The types 

 will be deposited in the paleobotanical collection of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Confervites dubius sp. nov. Fig. 9. 



Remains referable to this genus have not heretofore been 

 recorded in this country, and as their microscopical characters 

 are obliterated, it cannot be certain that they are algal in nature 



sition of the remains which are flexuous and interlaced would 

 indicate the former view, and as a well marked type of vegetable 

 remains they deserve a place in the flora of the Matawan forma- 

 tion. A number of foreign species have been referred to this 



