Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...

CONIFERALES.
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flat stalk about 5 ram. in width, with numerous resin-canals
approximately parallel with the lateral margins artd dying o_,t
proximad, filled with an 2mber-like substance,
Remains of this species were described and figured by Hitch-
. cock in his account of the organic remains found at Gay Head,
Marthas Vineyard, as long ago as 1841. He did not name them,
but remarks: "It seems to me very obvious that these remains
must be the seed vessels of some coniferous plants." trL I8_2
Professor Heer found similar forms in the material from the
west coast of Greenland and named aM described them, as well as
two other very similar forms, and definitely recognized their relation
to Da_lzmara. Subsequently they have been recorded from
the European Cenomanian by Velenovsky, Krasser and Beyer,
from the Raritan formation by Professor Newberry, from. Long'
Islar_d and _taten Island by Holl_ck. Unpublished work of the '
writer will extend their range southward to North Carolina and
Alabama. They are abundant in the Raritan formation at
Woodbridg'e and occur at the South Amboy horizon immediately
across the Arthur Kill on Staten Island.
Similar remains have been considered by Heer, White,
Krasser and others as representing the fruits of Eucalyptus, but
it seems obvious that their relations are definitely with the
Arauearian conifers.
Occurrence.--Woodbridge.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Genus BRACHYPHYLLUMBrogn.
(Prodrome, I828,p. lO9.)
BRACHYFI_YLLUM MACROCARPUM Ncwb,
Plate
VII.
Tlmites crassus Lesq., Cret. & Tert. FI., 32, 1884.
Brachyphylh*_ crassu;n* Lesq., Proe. U. S;. Nat. Mus., vol.
lO: 3_, I887; F1. Dakota Orotlp, 32, pL 2, f. 5, 1892
(rLon Tenison-Woods, I883' ).
Newb., F1. Amboy Clays, 51, pl. 7, [. z-7; I896.
Brachyphflh*m sp., Knc_wlton, Bull. Geol. Soc., Am'. vol. 8: 137,
14o, _897.
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