io6 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



gested itself, and as a distinct type of Raritan plant it deserves a 

 place in any enumeration of the Raritan flora. 



Occurrence. — Sayreville, Milltown. 



Collections. — ^U. S. National Museum. N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Myrica cinnamomifolia Newb. 

 Plate X, Fig. 7. 



Myrica cinnamo mi folia Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 64. pi. 22, f. 

 p-14, 1896. 



Description. — Leaves of medium size, elliptical in outline, pin- 

 nately lobate or panduriform. Lobes obtusely rounded, separated, 

 by shallow rounded sinuses of variable width or the margin may 

 be strongly undulate with two or three broad scallops, or one 

 margin may be lobate and the other scalloped. Apex obtusely 

 pointed. Base pointed, slightly decurrent. Petiole stout, 2.5 cm. 

 in length. Leaves very variable in size and outline, ranging from 

 4.5 cm. to 7.5 cm. in length by 2 cm. to 4 cm., in breadth. Basal 

 half or one-third of the leaf entire, this feature with the ascending 

 opposite basal secondaries giving fragmentary specimens the 

 appearance of a Cinnamomum or a Sassafras. Midrib mediumly 

 stout. Secondaries few, not more than 2 or 3 pairs, branching 

 from the midrib at an acute angle, curved, indifferently campto- 

 drome and craspedodrome ; the basal pair are subopposite 

 branching from the midrib a short distance above the base and 

 curving upward ; they traverse ^^ or ^^ the distance to the apex 

 ending in the tip of the lowest lobe or camptodrome, this varia- 

 bility in their course is well shown in the specimen figured ; the 

 other secondaries may be alternate or sub-opposite, and they may 

 end in a lobe or not ; the second one is a considerable distance 

 above the basal pair, as much as 2.5 cm. in one specimen, and it 

 subtends a somewhat wider angle wuth the midrib. 



These curious leaves are not uncommon, but are mostly incom- 

 plete. Professor Newberry has figured several, which clearly 

 show their variable nature. The latter author was not at all 



