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

88 THE RARITAN FLORA.
Widdri_gtonia Reichii (Ettings.) Velen. Gym. B6hm. Kreidef.,
27, pl. 8, f. 4-6; pl. Io, f. I, II, 12, I885; Sitzs. k.
B6hm. GeselI. Wiss. I886; 639 (6) pl. I, f. I4-I6,
I887,
Krasser, Beitr. ;Pal_iont. Ost-Ung. und Orients, Bd. Io: I26
pl. i4 (4), f. 6; H. (7),/.. 4, 7, 8, s96.
Description,.--_"F. ram,is subm-ectis gas_igiatis, ramulis filiformibus
confertis, foliis adpi-essis e basi ovata subulatis, strobilis
axillaribus duplo longioribus quam latis." Ettings. I867.
Medium-sized branches with more or less crowded, slender,
elongated, fastigiate twigs, bearing .reduced "/)vate-subulate
leaves, spirally arranged. The cones are small oval bodies 5
mm. to i2 am. long_, by 3 am. to 7 am. in diameter, usually
poorly preserved, said by Ettingshausen to be axillary in position,
hut evidently often, terminal as evinced by some of the
Raritan material as well as by some of the better preserved
cones from the Cenomanion of Bohemia and Moravia. The latter
material clearly shows that the cones consisted of four scales.
This would ally it with either the subgenus Widdringtonia of the
genus Callitris Vent., to which Eichler in his treatment of the
living species in gngler and Prantl (1887) refers Endticher's
genus, or to the subgenus Eugallibris Brongn., which also is
ehai'aeterized by four cone-scales. The latter has a single living
species of northern Africa and the former has three or four
species of southern Africa and Madagascar. The propriety of
E.ichler's classification may well be questioued, and in any event
paleobotanists must necessarily prefer the older segregation of
Frenela and Widdringtonia and their respective form_genera
There seems to be but little doubt that the present species
should be referred to Widdringtonia, as Velenovsky and Krasser
have done, but as the term gViddrirag'ton.ites is equally indicative
of its true affinity, little is to be gained by making the proposed
change.
This species, which is probaNy the most commou conifer of
the Raritant formation, was described originally by Ettingshausen
from the Cenomanian of Niedersehmna, in Saxony, as a
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