204 THE RARITAN FLORA. 



Order ERICALES. 



Family ERICACE^. 



Genus ANDROMEDA Linne. 



(Sp. PI., 1753. P- 393-) 



Andromeda novje-cjesakeje Hollick. 



Andromeda novcr-ccvsarea Hollick in Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 



121, pi. 42, f. p-i2, 28-si, 1896. 

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



calcarecr). 

 Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 33:181, 1906; Ibid., vol. 



34:204, 1907. 



Description. — Thick entire leaves of small size, with stout peti- 

 ole and midrib and obscure secondary venation, which is for the 

 most part immersed in the thick substance of the leafblade. 

 Length ranging from 2.5 cm. to 5 cm. and width varying from 

 0.9 cm. to 1.3 cm. Venation when visible shows numerous par- 

 allel, camptodrome secondaries which branch from the midrib 

 at an acute angle, curving upward and relatively long. While 

 the majority of these leaves are equally acuminate at both ends, 

 there is considerable variation in this respect, and a w^ll-marked 

 tendency is shown in a considerable number of specimens which 

 are relatively broader, especially in the upper half of the leaf, 

 toward an obtusely rounded apex, the termination of the midrib 

 showing as a faint mucronate point. The base in these forms 

 gradually narrows to the stout petiole, the term oblanceolate or 

 lanceospatulate perhaps describing them better than any other. 

 The variations in outline of this species are well shown in the 

 figures reproduced in Prof. Newberry's monograph. A large 

 number of the leaves which the writer has identified as this species 

 from the Coastal Plain, south of New Jersey, have this obtusely 

 rounded apex. 



Within the Raritan formation this species is only known with 

 certainty from the upper beds at South Amboy. It becomes 



