. Maryland geological survey. r Cretaceous, and whenthe individual abundance is considered rather than the specific differ-entiation it must be admitted that this family furnishes an importantelement in the Potomac flora. The existing distribution of the Taxacese is shown on the accompany-ing sketch map of the world (Fig. 12), the subfamily Taxese beingrepresented by horizontal lining and the subfamily Podocarpe^ byvertical lining. ^ eg. C. fasciculatus, G. mucronatus, C. sessilis, G. ternatus. 376 Systematic Paleontology Heer ^ has described a leafy twig from the Patoot beds of Greenland(Seno
. Maryland geological survey. r Cretaceous, and whenthe individual abundance is considered rather than the specific differ-entiation it must be admitted that this family furnishes an importantelement in the Potomac flora. The existing distribution of the Taxacese is shown on the accompany-ing sketch map of the world (Fig. 12), the subfamily Taxese beingrepresented by horizontal lining and the subfamily Podocarpe^ byvertical lining. ^ eg. C. fasciculatus, G. mucronatus, C. sessilis, G. ternatus. 376 Systematic Paleontology Heer ^ has described a leafy twig from the Patoot beds of Greenland(Senonian) bearing a large solitary drupe-like fruit which he callsCepJialotaxites insignis, an identification which Solms-Laubach * seemsto consider probable. Bertrand^ has described structural material offruits allied to Cephalotaxus under the name of Vesquia Tournaisii fromthe Aachenian of Belgium and the present writer has described * similarfruits which are common in the Upper Cretaceous of the SouthernAtlantic Coastal Fig. 12.—Sketch map of the world showing the approximate distribution ofthe existing Taxaceae, horizontal lining = subfamily Taxeae, vertical lining =subfamily Podocarpese. The existing genus Cephalotaxus Sieb. and Zucc, contains fourspecies confined to the Chinese-Japanese region. It was evidently muchmore widespread in former geologic times and to it should possibly bereferred some of the leafy twigs included in the genus Taxites Bron- ?? Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct, Bd. vii, 1883, p. 10, pi. liii, fig. 12.^ Solms-Laubach, Fossil Botany, 1891, p. 61. * Bertrand, Bull. Soc. Bot. France, t. xxx, 1883, p. 293. * Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. xxxvil, 1910, p. 187. Maryland Geological Survey 377 gniart. Fruit of three species of Cephalotaxus, apparently identifiedcoreretly, are described by Kinkelin ^ from the Pliocene deposits ofGermany. CephalotaxopSis magnifolia FontainePlate LX, Fig. 1 Cephalotaxopsis magnifolia Fontaine, 1890, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol.
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