RANALES. 145 



Nevvb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 85, pi. 16, f. 10, 11, 1896. 

 Hollick, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. ii : 60, pi. 4, f. 6, 7, 



1898; U. S. Geol. Siirv., Mon. 50: 80, pi. 21, f. p, 11; 



pi. 28, f. I, 2, 1907. 

 PGoiild, Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. 5: 175, 1898. 

 Berry, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard., vol. 3 : 79, pi. 50, f. g-ii, 



1903; Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 31 : yy, pi. ^, f. i, 1904; 



Ibid., vol. 33: 178, 1906; Ann. Rept. State Geol. (N. 



J.) for 1905: 138, 139, 1906. 



Description. — ''L. foliis subcoriaceis, lanceolatis, utrinque at- 

 tenuatis, acuminatis, integerrimis ; nervo primario' validiusculo, 

 nervis secundariis numerosis, tenuibus, sul>angulo' acuto egredi- 

 entibus, arcuatis, interstitiis reticulatis." Heer, 1882. 



Leaves lanceolate in outline, usually tapering in both direc- 

 tions, but sometimes less acute at the base. Length 7 cm. to 11 

 cm.; greatest width 1.5 cm. to .2.5 cm. Midrib mediumly stout. 

 Petiole short and stout, 6 mm. tO' 15 m^m. in length. Secondaries 

 slender, eight or more alternate pairs, camptodrom'e. 



This species was described by Hieer from, the Atane beds of 

 Greenland, and a large number of somewhat variable and frag^- 

 mentary specimens were figured. Professor Newberry records 

 specimens from the Raritan formation without giving any specific 

 localities. Those figured show leaves which are relatively wider 

 than the usual leaves of. this species, but these are comparable 

 with some O'f the Greenland material, as. for example, Heer's 

 pi. 20, fig. 5 and pi. 28, fig. II. Entirely typical leaves occur 

 in the top layers of the Raritan at the H(ylton Pits. 



Subsequent to- its description by Professor Heer this species 

 was recorded from' a very large number of Cretaceous plant beds, 

 SO' that its present range, both geographical and geological, is 

 rather extensive. A number of these records are not entirely 

 above question, and this appears to be especially true of the forms 

 from the Cenomanian of Bohemia, which Velenovsky so identifies. 



It is evidently a rare plant in the Raritan, but becomes abun- 

 dant in the immediately succeeding floras, being common in that 

 of the Dakota Group and in the Magothy formation at a number 

 of localities in Xew Jersey and Maryland. It is a common form 



