194 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Sap., Fl. Foss. Portugal, 207, pi. 36, f. 12, 1894. 

 Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36:260, 1909. 



Description. — "Blatter lineal, schmal lineallanzettlich, in der 

 Mitte Oder in der unteren Halfte am^ breitesten, ganzrandig, 

 vorne in eine sehr lange Spitze vorgezogen und mit einem 

 harten Dorn beendet, Der Primarnerv gerade, ziemlich stark, 

 zur Spitz bin verdiinnt. Die Secundarnerven zahlreich, unter 

 spitzen Winkeln entspringend, am Rande durch einen Sauninerv 

 untereinander verbunden. Der Blattstiel gerade, etwa i cm. 

 lang, stark." Velenovsky, 1885. 



The foregoing is Velenovsky 's description of this interesting 

 species which is exceedingly common at a number of localities in 

 the Perucer schicliten of Bohemia ( Cencmanian). where this 

 author subsecjuently found fruit-bearing twigs which he described 

 and figured in 1889 and which, it would seem, conclusively 

 establish the botanical relations of these leaves. 



Subsequently Saporta (loc. cit.) recorded this species from the 

 Albian beds of Portugal ; the latter material is, however, rather 

 incomplete and open to question. Recent collections in our own 

 Coastal Plain show that this species was present in considerable 

 abundance on this side of the Atlantic at the same time that it 

 flourished in Europe. It has been collected from the upper 

 Raritan at South Amboy, where it is common ; from the Bladen 

 formation of South Carolina, and from the Upper Cretaceous 

 of Georgia, and may be somewhat more fully characterized as 

 follows : 



Leaves alternate or scattered, mostly elongated, linear-lanceo- 

 late in outline, often falcate, 4.5 cm. to 15 cm. in length, by 5 

 mm. to 13.5 mm. in width, with an attenuated acute tip and a 

 narrowly cuneate base declining to the short and stout petiole. 

 Midrib mediumly stout below, becoming attenuated above. 

 Secondaries very numerous, fine, and close-set, about i mm. 

 apart, parallel, rather straight ; they branch from the midrib at 

 acute angles of about 30° or slightlv less and run with 

 but slight curvature to join the well-marked but fine marginal 

 hemi which shows in all the American material and in most of 



