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Vol. 38 No. 9 
BULLETIN 
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TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
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SEPTEMBER, ro11 
Contributions to the Mesozoic flora of the Atlantic 
coastal plain—VII 
Epwarp W. BERRY 
(WITH PLATES 18 AND IQ) 
The present contribution is a continuation of the author's 
previous studies upon the Upper Cretaceous floras of the Atlantic 
coastal plain and embraces additions to these floras from various 
localities and horizons extending from Raritan Bay in New Jersey 
to the Savannah River. 
THE FLORA OF THE MATAWAN FORMATION 
A considerable flora from the region around Keyport, New 
Jersey, was described by the writer nearly ten years ago. At that 
time these beds were included by geologists in the Matawan 
formation, but they have since been discriminated as a separate 
unit as far to the southwestward as the Potomac River under the 
name of the Magothy formation. This latter formation embraces 
all of those leafbearing beds in New Jersey which had previously 
been considered a part of the lower Matawan formation, leaving 
the restricted Matawan, which consists of strictly marine de- 
posits, without any known flora. For this reason considerable 
interest is attached to the discovery in marine deposits of this 
age of the following identifiable species. 
Ficus matawanensis sp. nov. 
DESCRIPTION: Leaf oblong-lanceolate i in outline, about 14 c 
to 15 ‘cm. in length by 35 5 cm. in maximum width. Petiole thoet 
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