TRANSLATIONS AND NOTICES OF GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS.
On the Cretaceous Flora of Moletein, Moratia. By Dr. 0. Heer.
[Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, April 21, 1868.]
Eighteen species have been determined from these beds, namely, one Fern, Gleichenia Quenstedti, Heer; one Palm, Palmacites horridus Heer (petiole only); four Abieteae, Sequoia Reichenbachi, Gein., sp.; S. fastigiata, Sternb., sp.; Cunninghamites elegans, Corda, and Pinus Quenstedti, Heer; two Moreae, Ficus Mohliana, Heer, and F. Krausiana, Heer; one doubtful Polygonean, Credneria macrophylla, Heer; two Laurineae, Daphnophyllum Fraasi and D. crassinervium, Heer. The other species are Aralia formosa, Heer; Chondrophyllum grandi-dentatum, Ung., sp.; Magnolia speciosa, Heer; M. amplifolia, Heer; Myrtophyllum (Eucalyptus?) Geinitzii, Heer; M. Schubleri, Heer, and Juglans crassipes, Heer. This flora is remarkable from being the earliest in which Dicotyledonous plants are conspicuously represented; two-thirds of the species belong to this class, which is not represented in the Wealden, and but sparingly in the Gault and Neocomian. The families to which these species belong are in no way related to the Lower Cretaceous flora of Europe generally; among them the Magnolias and Myrtles hold a high position in the vegetable scale. The fossil plants of Moletein are in an excellent state of preservation, and the leaves are of large size, although it might have been expected that the Dicotyledons next following the Coniferae in time would be small-leaved forms. [Count M.]
On the Fossil Flora of the Arctic Regions, by Dr. O. Heer.
[Proceed. Imp. Geol. Instit. Vienna, April 21, 1868.]
Prof. Heer has just published a description of this flora illustrated by fifty plates, Dr. Ch. Cramer, of Zurich, contributing the description of the fossil woods. The Carboniferous flora is represented only on Melville Island*; the Cretaceous only in North Greenland. Miocene deposits with vegetable remains exist in North Greenland (with fossil insects), Banks' Land, Mackenzie, Iceland, and Spitz-
- The Swedish expedition of last year detected Carboniferous strata both in
Bear Island and in Spitzbergen, and in the latter fossil remains of animals of Triassic and Jurassic forms.
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