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

9a_ THE RARITAN FLORA,
Fontaine, Potomac FI., 243, pt. zz8, f. I, 4; pl. H9, f. _-5,
etc., 1889.
Lesq., Cret. FI., 51, pl. ;L f, _o-zob, I874; F1. Dakota
Group, 35, pl. 2, f. 4, 1892.
Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. iz:3o , pl. f, f. I8,
I892; U. S. Geol. Surv. Mon. 50:42, pl. 2, f. 40; pl.
3, f. 4, 5, 19o7.
Nath, in Felix & Ixnk, Beitr. _eol. u. Pal. Mexico, 2 Th.
I hft., _893..
Newberry, F1. Amboy Clays, 49, pl. 9, f. :I9, I896.
Berry, Bull. N. ¥. Bot. Garden, vo.1.3 : 59, pl. 48, f. I5-I8,
2o, I9o3; Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 3I :69, p[. 4, f. 8,
I9o4; Ibid., vol. 32:44, pI. I, f. 3, I9o5; Ibid.
33 : 165, 19o6.
Knowlton, Smith. Misc. Coll. voI. 4, pt. I : 126, pl. :z2, [. 7,
8, 19o7; U. S. Geol. Surv. Mort. 32:657, 1899; Bull.
l.r.S. Geol. Surv. No. 257:131, pL I4, f. 3-5, 19o5.
Seq_oia Uouttsiae Holliek, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 12: 3o,
pl. r, f. 5 (non Heer).
Description.--"S. ramis elongatis, foliis decurrentibus, patentibus,
fatcato-incurvis, rigidis, acnminatis." Heer, 1868.
This widespread Mesozoic species is not abundant in the Raritan
formation, being only recorded from the single locality of
Wo_)dbridge, where it is not common. This relative rarity is
probably to be explained by local climatic conditions due to altitude
9r to the character of the soil and its water content and
their effect upon relative humidity. Of course, such an explanation
is largely speculative. We do know, however, that Sequoia
twigs are about the last fragments in floating vegetable
debris to disintegrate, and that their remains are fotmd in deposits
in which the associated vegetation is reduced to an unrecognizable
mass, so that it is safe to predicate that gequoia
Reichenbachi did no_ grow near the place where the Raritan
sediments were being laid down and that such specimens as are
preserved were floated into the Raritan basin by streams, perhaps
from tbe uplands where they grew. In the succeeding
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