PROFESSOR HEER ON THE EOSSIL FLORA OF NORTH GREENLAND. 459 
On the coasts of the Baltic, 6, viz. : — 
Sequoia brevifolia, Poacites Mengeanus, Populus Zaddachi, Salix Paeana, Andro- 
meda Saportana, and Fraxinus denticulata. 
In Switzerland, 10, viz. : — 
Aspidium Meyeri, A. Heerii, Osmunda Heerii, Pteris (Eningensis, Sparganium 
stygium, Widdringtonia helvetica, Platanus Guillelmee, Corylus insignis, Phamnus 
Gaudini, and Colutea Salteri. 
In Austria, 7, viz. : — 
Lastrsea Stiriaca, Quercus Lyellii, Fagus macrophylla, Alnus nostratum, Cornus 
ferox, Myrica acuminata, and Dryandra acutiloba. 
In France (Armissan and Menat), 4, viz. : — 
Thujopsis massiliensis, Sequoia Couttsise, Populus sclerophylla, and Corylus 
M‘Quarrii. 
In Italy, 17, viz. : — 
« Salisburea adiantoides, Taxodium, Smilax grandifolia, Phragmites CEningensis, 
Liquidambar europseum, Platanus aceroides, Fagus Deucalionis, Castanea Ungeri, 
Quercus Drymeia, Q. Laharpii, Carpinus grandis, Diospyros brachysepala, Ilex lon- 
gifolia, Juglans acuminata, J. Strozziana, Phamnus Eridani, Sassafras Ferre tianuim 
In Greece (Kumi), 6, viz. : — 
Sequoia Langsdorfii, Glyptostrobus europseus, Planera Ungeri, Quercus furci- 
nervis, Andromeda protogaea, and Phamnus brevifolia. 
We find 4 species common to North Greenland and Bovey Tracey in Devonshire. It 
is remarkable that among these is the tree most common at the latter locality, Sequoia 
Couttsice, while the fern most frequently found at Bovey ( Hemitelites lignitum) is repre- 
sented in Greenland by a species ( H . Torelli ) very closely related to it. 
It is certainly very interesting that so many species extend to Italy and Greece. 
Almost all of these may be referred to the country situated between these two extreme 
limits, and we thereby see that our knowledge respecting the Miocene Flora of Europe, 
at least the forest plants, is no longer so imperfect as heretofore. 
This review proves to us the extensive distribution of the Miocene plants, and also 
that the same types have ranged over a wider area than the homologous living species. 
These indeed reach as far southwards as the Miocene ones, but do not advance so far in 
a northerly direction. 
Amber has been brought by Mr. Whymper from Atanekerdluk and from Ujararsusuk. 
At Atanekerdluk it is found in the brown coal, and also in the fossil plant-beds. In 
some stones grains of amber are seen beside twigs of Taxodium (Plate XLIII. figs. 4, 6). 
It is, however, much more abundant in the brown coal of Flare Island (cf. Flora Arctica, 
p. 7). The Sequoias and the Taxodium being the commonest conifers of Greenland, it 
seems likely that the amber was produced by them. 
I pointed out in my ‘Flora Fossilis Arctica’ (p. 13),. that the formation containing 
the Tertiary plants of Greenland is Lower Miocene in age. The species which have 
