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

CONIFERALES. 95
1Vf;_othy. formation, this species and other conifers were excessively
abundant in this general region, and this species occurs
in great abundance in beds of approximately this latter age in
every State from New York to Atahama.
Seq_oia Reichenbachi has a recorded range on this continent
from the Neocomian of Mexico to the Livingston formation of
Montana, and it seems to have been equally at home during the
greater.part of the Cretaceous in Europe an(t the Arctic region.
it is possible that these remains may represent re,ore than a single
species, but of this it is impossible to judge. The Tertiary 5¥quolc_
Langsclorfii has an almost equally wide range, both vertical
and horizontal.
In the original description, Ceinitz refers this species to the
genus'Arau.carites, and severM students since his day have pointed
out its resemblance to the Eutacta section of the genus Arabcarla.
If this be the true affinity, then this Cretaceous A_'a_2
caff_ bore Sequoia cones, for the latter have been found attached
to the twigs in a number of instances.
Occu_'ence--Woodbridge.
Collections--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
SEQUOIA HETNROPHYLL& Velen.
Plate VI.
Sequoia heterophylla. V.elen:, Gymnos. bShm. Kreidef., 2_, pl.
ze, f. I2; pl. 13, f. 2"-4, 6-9, 1885; Sitz. K. b6hm.
Oesel. Wiss., Prag, i888; 593. f. 7, 8.
Holliek, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. I2: 3, pI. z, _. zR,
1892; U. S. Geol. Sur_ey, Mon. 50:4 I, pl. 3, f, 2, 3.
t9o7.
Sh_ith, Geol. COastal Plain in Ala., 348, 1894.
Ward, I5th Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey, 378, 380, 382,
392, I895.
Newb., FI. Amboy Clays, 49, pl. 6, f. r-z 3, 1896.
Knowlton, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 257: t32, pl. z6,
f. 5, _9o5.
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