Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...
Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...
Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...
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8o THE RARITAN FLORA.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se fruits always occur detached and are present it/ considerable<br />
abundance at Woodbridge, but have not been detected<br />
from o<strong>the</strong>r localities in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Raritan</strong>. Similar remains are recorded<br />
from <strong>the</strong> Tuscaloosa formation <strong>of</strong> Alabama, and <strong>the</strong>y are<br />
also present in <strong>the</strong> Blader_ formation <strong>of</strong> North Carolina. As<br />
<strong>the</strong>ir name indicates <strong>the</strong>y are assumed to represent <strong>the</strong> fruit <strong>of</strong><br />
some contemporaneous species <strong>of</strong> cycad.<br />
Occurrence.--Woodbridge.<br />
Collection*.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.<br />
Order<br />
CONIF[RALES.<br />
Family<br />
Subfamily<br />
PINACEZ_.<br />
ARAUCARIETE.<br />
Genus DAMMARA Lain.<br />
(Encyc. I]', 1786, p. 259.)<br />
_MMARA BOP-_IS _eer.<br />
Dammara borealls Heel F1. Foss. Arct., vol: 6, ab. 2 : 54, pl. 37,<br />
f. 5, I882.<br />
Velen, Kv_tena eesk6ho cenomaon., 7, pl. I, f. 28, _9, I889.<br />
Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., voL 12: 31, pl. z, f. z7,<br />
I892 ; Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. 2 : 402, pl. 41, f. 6,<br />
_9o2; U. S. Geol. Survey, Mon. 5o: 37, pl 2, [. _-zz<br />
(pars), z-_-26 (pars), zTa, I9o 7.<br />
<strong>New</strong>b., FL Ahlboy Clays, 46, pl. zo, f. 8, 1896.<br />
Hitchcock, Final Rept. Geol. Mass., vol 2 : 430, pl. z9,<br />
f-4,5, _84I.<br />
Description.--"D. strobilorum squamis coriaceis, radiatim<br />
sttlcatis, 22 ram. latis, apice obtuse rotundatis, apieulatis, basi<br />
attenuatis." Heer, 1882.<br />
Scale-like organisms from I era. to 2 cm. or possibly more in<br />
length, rounded distally and showing in some specimens a but<br />
slightly emphasized apieulate point. Greatly expanded laterally<br />
in <strong>the</strong> upper part to a breadth reaching 2. 5 cm., abruptly contracted<br />
at about <strong>the</strong> middle to a cuneate or straight-margined<br />
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY