TERTIARY FOSSIL PLANTS FROM THE REPUBLIC OFHAITI. By Edward W. BerryOf the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. The romantic island of Haiti or Hispaniola, which next to Cuba isthe largest of the Antilles, is divided politically into the DominicanRepublic and the Republic of Haiti. At the invitation of the respec-tive Governments the United States Geological Survey has, in thelast few years, made geologic studies of the island under the directionof T. Wayland Vaughan. Geologic and paleozoologic data of greatimportance have been obtained, and a few collections of fossil plantswere also secured. Those from the Dominican Republic, comprisingsmall and for the most part poorly preserved materials of Tertiaryage, were described by me in a recent paper.*This paper is published by permission of the engineer in chief ofthe Republic of Haiti.The work in the Republic of Haiti, in charge of W. P. Woodring,resulted in 13 small collections of fossil plants at the following local-ities:B 320 F. Departement du Nord, 7 km. north of Dondon on trail to Grande Rivifere,altitude about 400 meters above sea level. J. S. Brown, collector. March 21, 1921.B 91 F. Departement du Sud, bluff on left bank of Bras h Gauche de Grande Riviferede Jeremie, about 10 km. south of junction of Bras a Gauche with Bras a Droit, and 5km. north of Sources Chaudesde Dame Marie. J.S.Brown, collector. November 17,1920.B 272 F. Departement du Nord, about 6 km. south by west of Plaisance on road toEnnery, north slope of Mt. Puilboreau, altitude about 550 meters above sea level.J. S. Brown, collector. February 25, 1921.W 190 F (U. S. G. S. Tertiary invertebrate station 9907).2 Departement de I'Ouest,first high bluff on left bank of Riviere 1'Ayaye above Junction with Riviere Artibonite,about 18 km. northwest of Las Cahobas. W. P. Woodring, collector. January 10,1921. 1 Berry, E. W., Proc. U. S Nat. Mus., vol. 59, pp. 117-127, pi. 21, 1921.2 Some of the localities have station numbers in the United States Geological Survey catalogue ofTertiary invertebrate fossil localities, as invertebrate fossils were collected at the same locality and fromthe same beds.No. 2460?Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 62, Art. 14.1 2 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 62.B 58 F. D^parteinent du Sud, La Ivavine du Sud at intake on Canal d'Avezac,2 km. north of Camp Perrin. In part from bluff about 100 meters south^Yest of intake,collected by W. S. Burbank, November 5, 1920; in part from locality 60 metersnortheast of intake, collected by J. S. Brown, November 6, 1920.B 88 F (U. S. G. S. Tertiary invertebrate station 9544). D^partement du Sud,valley of Bras a Droit de Grande Riviere de Jer^mie, about 1 km. east of ChambellanMarket on trail to Jeremie. J. S. Brown, collector. November 16, 1920.B 311 F. Departement du Nord, bed of ravine just west of road from Fort Liberteto Acul Samedi, about 5 km. northeast of Acul Samedi. J. S. Brown, collector.March 18, 1921.B 95 F (U. S. G. S. fossil plant station 7541). Departement du Sud, valley ofGrande Riviere de J^r6mie, on trail between Mafron and Fondelet Markets, about12 km. southwest of Jeremie. J. S. Brown, collector. November 18, 1920.W 233 F (U. S. G. S. Tertiary invertebrate station 9927). Departement du Nord,north limb of Thomonde anticline, on trail from Thomonde to Hinche, about 4.5 km.north-northwest of Thomonde, altitude 350 meters above sea IcA-el. W. P. Woodring,collector. January 26, 1921.B 139 F (U. S. G. S. fossil plant station 7542). Departement de I'Ouest, trail fromLa Chapelle to Mirebalais, from ravine 1 km. west of highest locality on trail, about10 km. southeast of La Chapelle, altitude about 300 meters above sea level. J. S.Brown, collector. December 18, 1920.K 210 F (U. S. G. S. fossil plant station 7543). Departement de I'Artibonite, ravineabove highway bridge on road from St. Marc to Gona'ives, about 4 km. northeast ofSt. Marc. W. S. Burbank, collector. March 30, 1921.W 185 F (U. S. G. S. fossil plant station 7544). Departement de I'Ouest, cut alongroad from Mirebalais to Las Cahobas, on north side of ravine at foot of mountain onnorth side of gap. W. P. Woodring, collector. January 8, 1921.W 96 F (U. S. G. S. fossil plant station 7555). Departement du Sud, Vallee deI'Asile, south side of Riviere Serpent between Source Paul and Source Goudet. W.P. Woodring, collector. November 16, 1920.Locality B 320 F, tentatively referred to the Cretaceous, furnishedmuch broken fragments of linear leaves or small stems that are notdeterminable. Localities B 91 F and B 272 F, referred to the Eocene,yielded only small fragments, none of which are determinable. Local-ity W 190 F, referred to the Miocene, furnished undeterminablelignified stems. LocaUties B 58 F and B 88 F, referred to the Miocene,furnished respectively lignified stems and leaf fragments, none of whichare determinable. Locality B 31 1 F, referred tentatively to the Pleisto-cene, furnished fragments of leaves, none of which are determinable.Locality B 95 F (station 7541) furnished the Dominican species Guet-tarda cookei Berry, undeterminable dicotyledonous fragments, andthe Gymnogramme which occurs at two other localities. LocalityW 233 F furnished fragments of dicotyledonous leaves, probably repre-senting the genus Ficus. LocaUties B 139 F (station 7542) and K 210F (station 7543) furnished one or two determinable species. Local-ity W 185 F (station 7544), from which the only considerable col-lection was made, furnished several identifiable forms. Locality W96 F (station 7555) furnished Ohara fruits from iocustrine beds ofMiocene age. ART. 14. TERTIAKY FOSSIL PLANTS FEOM HAITI BERRY. 3The locality W 185 F, which is considered of middle or upper Mio-cene age, contains the same Gymnogramme found at two other local-ities which are also referred to the Miocene. In the absence ofclearly defined stratigraphic evidence I would be inclined to considerall three localities as of the same age. Although the present collectionsare not conclusive, I would be inclined to regard the few Mioceneplants collected as pointing to late, rather than early Miocene age.In addition to the few species named and described in the follow-ing pages the Miocene beds at station 7544 contain several fragmentsof what appear to be a species of Terminalia, a palm ray, and frag-ments of six or eight species of dicotyledons which might be readilydeterminable if a described fossil flora was known from this generalarea and horizon. The collection from station 7542 contains frag-ments of lauraceous leaves suggesting the genus Nectandra, and asecond distinctly lauraceous type is present at locality B 88 F.The flora described is too small to be of any especial significance.It is, perhaps, superfluous to point to its modern facies and tropicalcharacter. The nine species described, of which all but two arenew, represent as many genera, seven families, and as many orders. Alarge number of forms that might reasonably be expected from thelate Tertiary of this region are conspicuously absent, notably Legu-minosae and members of the mangrove association. This appears tomean two things, namely, the absence of tidal mud flats and riverestuaries, and suggests sandy or rocky shores. All of the leavesenumerated are of strand plants and all are maceration resisting forms,indicating that the other normal members of the Tertiary strandflora failed of preservation, at least at the discovered localities.Family CHARACEAE.Genus CHARA Linnaeus.CHARA WOODRINGI, new species.This species is represented by numerous calcareous and veryfragile oogonia. Oogonium circular in cross section; elliptical inprofile, slightly fuller distad than proximad; almost twice as longas wide; somewhat variable in size, which ranges from 0.5 to 0.8millimeter in diameter, and from 0.75 to 1.25 millimeters in length.Proximal pole with a thin pentagonal calcareous plug which is fre-quently broken away. Apical pole consisting of the tips of the fivecells which are enlarged and slightly thickened. The five cells of thewall make three revolutions, the spirals are hence low, and areroundly furrowed between the knife-edge extended keels of the cellmargins.60466?23?Pi-oc.N.M.vol.62 35 4 PROCEEDINGS OP THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 62.These remains were found in association with a small fresh-waterfauna at an altitude of 160 meters at the locality cited below. Thespecies is decribed as new and named for the collector. It is possiblethat it may be the same as a still existing species, but as practicallyno systematic work has been done on the American Charas since thedeath of T. F. Allen, and I do not have adequate material of recentspecies for comr>P^i'=nn. no other method of treatment is possible.Although a few specieshave been described, prac-tically nothing has beendone on the fossil Charas ofAmerica, although they areknown to be abundant atcertain horizons, and theirabundance when present ina deposit, their wide geo-^ graphical range and minuteFIG. i.-ooGONiuM OF chara woodringi: a. APICAL ^^t clearly differentiatedview; b, profile view; c, cross section of a single specific expression tend toCELL, ALL GREATLT ENLARGED; d. BASAL VIEW. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ eXCClleUt hori-zon markers as Reid and Groves ^ have lately shown in an accountof the Eocene forms from southern England.Occurrence.?Miocene (station 7555).Class LEPTOSPORANGIATAE.Order POLYPODIALES.Family POLYPODIACEAE.Genus GYMNOGRAMME (of authors).GYMNOGRAMME WOODRINGI, new species.Plate 1, figs. 1-4.In absence of more perfect and fertile material it is impossible tobe sure of the generic position of this fern and I have thereforereferred it to the genus Gymnogramme of Hooker and Baker withthe clear recognition that this genus is a composite.* This typeof sterile pinnule has been referred to Acrostichum, Lomariopsis , Bleclinum, etc. The species is named for the collector, Dr. W. P.Woodring. The frond appears to have been pinnate and of fewpinnules. The pinnules are lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate in form, sReid, C, and Groves, J., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond., vol. 77, pp. 175-192, 1921.