114 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



berry, Milltown is added as a result of recent work, showing that 

 this species is present from the bottom' to the top of the Raritan 

 formation. It has also been collected by the writer from the 

 Bladen formation of North Carolina. 



Occurrence. — Sayreville, Woodbridge, South Amboy, Mill- 

 town, 



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



Saux LesquerjEuxii Berry. 



Salix protecefolia Lesq., (non Forbes, 1829). Amer. Jour. Sci., 

 vol. 46:94, 1868; Rept. on Clays, N. J., 29, 1878; 

 Cret. Fl., 60, pi. 5, f. 1-4, 1874; Cret. & Tert. Fl., 42, 

 pi. I, f. 14-16; pi. 16, f. 2, 1883; Fl. Dakota Group, 

 49, 1892. 



Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 66, pi. 18, f. 3, 4, 1896. 



Kurtz, Revista Mus. La Plata, 10: 51, 1902. 



Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 33: 171, pi. 7, /. 2, 1906; 

 Ann. Rept. State Geol. (N. J.) for 1905, 139, 1906. 

 Salix protecufolia longifolia Lesq., Fl. Dakota Group, 50, pi. 64, 



f. 9> 1892. 

 Proteoides daphnogenoides Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 72 (pars.) 



pL 32, f. II, 1896 (non /. 13, 14). 

 Dewalquea groenlandica Newb., 129 (pars.), pi. 41, f. 12 (non 



/. ^, 2)- 

 Sallx LesquereiLxii Berr}-, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36: 252, 1909. 



Description. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate in outline, somewhat 

 more acuminate above than below, variable in size, ranging 

 from' 6 cm. tO' 12 cm,, in length, and from i.i cm. tO' 2. 2. cm. in 

 greatest width, Which lis usually slightly blelow the middle. 

 Petiole, stout, much longer than in Salix flexuosa, ranging up to 

 1.2 cm. in length. Midrib stout below, tapering above. Second- 

 aries numerous, sometimes as many as 20 pairs ; they branch 

 from the midrib at angles of about 45° and are parallel and camp- 

 todrome. 



