tinguishable proportions, and the most interesting discovery by Dr. Hollick of Amber in
these beds, and its probable origin, imparts a new status to all
previous speculations, with no inconsiderable thrill of geological
reconstructive picturing also. The record of the plant genera, and the
localities in which they were found, should be perhaps more extendedly
reviewed, as illustrative of the only indigenous fossils (if the
expression can be used) in Greater New York. They are:
Protophyllocladus (Tottenville and Princess Bays), Dammara (Tottenville and Kreischerville), Sequoia (Kreischerville), Wid-dingtonites (Kreischerville), Moriconia (Princess Bay), Cyparis-sidium (Tottenville), Majanthemopkyllum (Kreischerville), Pop-ulus (Tottensville, Arrochar), Salix (Kreischerville, Arrochar), Myrica (Kreischerville, Tottenville), Juglans (Tottenville), Quer-ulus (Tottenville, Arrochar), Salix (Kreischerville, Arrochar), (Tottenville), Menispymilis (Tottenville), Magnolia (Tottenville), Liriodendron (Tottenville), Laurus (Kreischerville, Tottenville), Laurophyllum (Tottenville), Platanus (Richmond Valley, Princess Bay), Dalbergia (Tottenville), Leguminosites (Kreischerville), Pistacia (Tottenville), Acer (Tottenville), Sa-pindus (Princess Bay, Tottenville), Paliurus (Tottenville, Kreischerville), Stercula (Tottenville), Eucalyptus (Tottenville), Aralia (Tottenville), Chondrophyllum (Kreischerville), Kal-mia (Kreischerville), Andromeda (Tottenville), Myrsine (Arrochar), Diospyos (Princess Bay, Tottenville), Dewalquea (Tottenville, Kreischerville), Phyllites (Kreischerville), Williamsonia (Kreischerville), Tricalycites (Tottenville), Carpolithus (Tottenville, Kreischerville).
The
impression made by this floral exhibit is that of a warm temperate or
sub-tropical climate. The poplars, willows, walnuts, oaks, magnolias,
tulip trees, plane trees, maples, ginsengs, laurels, rosemary,
persimmon, bay berries, might not demand a very sensibly different
climate from that now prevailing over the very spot where their
tell-tale relics are exhumed to-day, and we might assume that indeed
the Cretaceous areas of the United States enjoyed somewhat contrasted
temperatures with reference to their northern or southern position,
