132 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Smith, Geol. Coastal Plain in Ala., 348, 1894. 

 Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 74, pi. 57, /. 1-4, 1896. 



Description. — Leaves narrowly elliptical in outline, remarkably 

 uniform in size and shape, 8.5 cm. to 13 cm. in length and 3.5 

 cm. to 4.5 cm. in breadth. xA.pex usually bluntly rounded, some- 

 times acute. Base matching the apex. Petiole mediumly stout, 

 3 cm. to 4 cm. in length. Midrib mediumly stout. Secondaries 

 slender, often obsolete, about 1 1 pairs, equidistant, parallel, 

 camptodrome, branching from the midrib at an angle of about 

 40°. Tertiaries when seen transverse. Texture coriaceous. 



This species was described originally from the Dakota Group 

 of Kansas. Professor Newberry described the Raritan remains, 

 which are abundant at the Woodbridge locality, as a new species, 

 and it has been kept distinct by Hollick, who recognized, how- 

 ever, its practical identity with the Dakota Group plant. 



There can be no question but that they belong to the same 

 species which is also recorded from Marthas Vineyard and Long 

 Island, and from the Woodbine formation of Texas and the 

 Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama. 



Occurrence. — Woodbridge. 



Collections. — N. Y. Botanical Garden. 



Magnolia Isbergiana Heer (?). 



Magnolia Isbergiana Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 6, abth. 2:91, 

 pi. 36, fig. 3, 1882. 

 Hollick, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 21 : 60, 1894. Mon. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv., vol. 50: 66, pi. 20, fig. 4, 1907. 



Description. — "M. foliis late ovatis, basi rotundatis ; nervis 

 secundariis approximatis, angulo acuto egredientibus, curvatis." 

 Heer, 1882. 



This species was described by Professor Heer from the Atane 

 beds of western Greenland and compared with that author's 

 Magnolia Capellinii, from which it differs in its thinner and more 

 numerous secondaries and its truncated base. It has also been 



