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

84 THE RARITAN FLORA.
breviter subacuminatis, facialibus rhombeis, minutis, dorso arg-ate
earinatis." Heel', 1882.
This species was described ori_nally from the Atane beds of
Greenland, as a species of Libocedrus. When Prof. Newberry
crone to study the abundant remains from the upper Raritan
he changed the generic reference to Th_]a, on what appears to
be good evidence. Similar remains have been identified by
Knowhon, from the Judith River beds of Montana, and the
writer has noted identical remains in considerable abundance in
the Magothy formation o,f Delaware and Maryland.
This is another one of those species from the upper Raritan
whose affinities are entirely with those of somewhat later formations,
and which serve to emphasize the Cenpmanian age of the
formation as a whole.
The twigs are strap-shaped, with nearly parallel sides 2 mm.,
or slightly less in width, and with four rows of short, appressed
leaves.
Occurrence.--South Amboy.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Genus THUITES
Sternberg.
(FI. d. Vorw., vol. I, I823, p. 39.)
THmTES M_mlANtHeer.
Thuites Meriani Heer, FI. Foss. Arct., vol. 3, ab. 2:73, pl. id,
f. i L i8_ 1873, Ibid., vol. 6, ab. 2:48, pl. 8, [. 9-1±; pl.
29, [. 20, b, 1882.
Newb., FI. Amboy Clays, 54, pl. Io, [. 5, I896.
Descripgon.--"Th. ramulis alternis, foliis quadrifariam imbrieatis,
laterlibus incurvis, acuminatis, facialibus subavatls,
dorso, evidenter costatls." Heer, 1873.
Twigs with four-ranked, imbricated, somewhat incurred and
appressed, ovate, pointed leaves, dorsally costate. This species
was described by Heer in 1873 from the Kome beds of Greenland,
although it is doubtfully distinct from Inolepis imbricata
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