jz THE RARITAN FLORA. 



mains referred to the latter species by Velenovsky.^ The New 

 Jersey species is clearly not a Gleichenia, however, since the tiny 

 fragment preserved is part of a fruiting plant, and while the 

 [)reservation is too poor for discerning the details, it is sufficiently 



Fig. 5. — Asplenium jerseyensis sp. nov. Milltown, N. J. 



good to show the remains of oblong-lanceolate sori on the lateral 

 veins of the pinnules exactly as in many species of Asplenium, to 

 which genus it is consequently referred. It differs from any 

 previously described Cretaceous forms, although a similar but 

 larger Asplenium in fruit has been collected by the writer from 

 the Magothy formation at Grove Point, Maryland. 



Occurrence. — rMilltown. 



Collection. — U. S. National Museum. 



Family OPHIOGLOSSACE^. 



Genus OPHIOGLOSSUM Linne. 



(Sp. PL, 1753,. P- 1062.) 

 Ophioglossum granulatum Heer. 



Ophioglossiim granulatum Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 7: 8, pi. 57, 

 /. 8, p, 1883; Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 43, pi. p, f. 11-13, 

 1896. 



^Velen. Die Fame der Bohm, Kreideform, p. 7, pi. iii, figs. 8-10, li 



