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Laurophyllum elegans Hollick. 



Laurophyllum elegans Hollick, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. 50: 



^i,pl. .2r, f. 1-5, 1907. 

 Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36:255, 1909. 

 Launis plutonia Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 11:99, 



pl- 3, f- 3^ 4> 1892; Ibid., vol. 12 : 236, pi 6, f. i, 1893. 

 Proteoides daphnogenoidcs Hollick, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 



II : 420, pi. 36, f. 2, 1898. 



Description. — Leaves elongate-lanceolate in outline, some- 

 what flexuous, about 12 cm. toi 13 cm. in length, by about 2 cm. 

 in greatest width, which is about midway between the apex and 

 the base. From this point narrowing gradually distad into 

 an antennuated, acuminate, usually curved tip and basally into 

 a long, narrowly cuneate base. Midrib stout, stouter than in 

 Laurophyllum> nervillosum Hollick. Secondaries numerous, 

 usually less close and somewhat coarser than in the latter species ; 

 they branch from the midrib at an acute angle below, which 

 becomes more open above the base of the leaf. They are usually 

 more curved than in L. nervillosum and more distinctly camp- 

 todrom,e. Tertiaries, transverse throughout. 



These leaves were recorded originally by Hollick as Lauriis 

 plutonia, Heer, and are later compared by the former author 

 with Lawns augusta Heer. which latter species they resemble 

 more than they do the former. In outline they are not unlike 

 Laurophyllum angitstifolium, Newb., from Woodbridge, N. J., 

 but differ decidedly in venation. They are also similar, but 

 quite distinct from Lauropkyllumi mrvillosunu, Hollick, and 

 Laurophyilum reticidatum, Lesq., of the Dakota Group. 



The specimens outside of those recorded in the present con- 

 tribution from New Jersey and those which are as yet unpub- 

 lished fromi the region south of New Jersey, are from trans- 

 ported materials associated with the terminal moraine, from 

 which numerous specimens have been collected. Those from 

 Tottenville, Staten Island, are undoubtedly of Raritan age, while 



