400 Berry: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 
and very stout. Midrib very stout, prominent on the lower side 
of the leaf. Margins rather straight. Apex missing. Base 
pointed, slightly decurrent. Secondaries numerous, thin, regu- 
larly spaced, branching from the midrib at angles of about 50 
degrees, running in an almost straight course to the vicinity of 
the margin, where their ends are united by flat arches. Tertiary 
venation as in the modern Ficus elastica Thunb. Texture very 
coriaceous. (PLATE 19, FIG. 3.) 
The present species is very closely related to Ficus reticulata 
(Lesq.) Knowlton,* a species described originally from the Dakota 
sandstone of Kansas and reported by the writer from the Magothy 
formation of New Jersey. There are, however, slight differences 
in outline and in the details of the venation, which make it desirable 
to institute a new species. It shows also considerable similarity 
with a new species of Ficus to be described shortly by the writer 
from the Upper Cretaceous of Buena Vista, Georgia. The ma- 
terial, which is scanty, was collected from the Lorillard pits in the 
Woodbury clays by Dr. H. P. Little, a former student at the 
Johns Hopkins University. It was contained in a carbonate of 
iron nodule, such as are common in the dark micaceous shallow 
water clays at this point. 
In addition to the foregoing species of Ficus, fragmentary leaves 
have been observed in similar nodules in the Matawan formation 
at Penny Hill, Delaware, and the following species has recently 
been collected from this horizon in Maryland. 
DAMMARA CLIFFWOODENSIS Hollick 
Dammara cliffwoodensis Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 16: 128. 
pl. 11. f. 5-8. 1897. 
These characteristic deciduous cone scales were described from 
the Magothy formation of New Jersey, where they are abundant. 
They are very similar to the somewhat earlier Dammara borealis 
Heer and furnish evidence of the substantial unity in floral char- 
acters between the Magothy and Matawan formations. The 
present occurrence is based on materials associated with waterworn 
fragments of lignite and marine invertebrates, 34 mile east of 
Millersville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. 
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*This name is preoccupied by Ficus reticulata Saporta, 1863, an Oligocene 
species of southeastern France, as well as by the living F. reticulata Thunb. 1786. 
