BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 417 
Cissites salisburiaefolius Lesq. Mon. U. 5S. Geol. Surv. 17: 164. 
1892. : 3 
(2) Sassafras cretaceum Newb. Mon. U.S. Geol. Surv. 35: pl. 8. f. 2. 
1898 
98.. 
Cissites salisburiaefolius Ward, Nineteenth Ann. Rept. U.S. Geol. 
Surv. Pt. 2: 707. pl. 171. fi $538. 
Typical specimens of this well marked and handsome variety, 
which is possibly a distinct species, are common in the Raritan 
formation at Bull Mountain, Cecil County, Md. 
Araliopsis breviloba sp. nov. 
curved, camptodrome, branching from the primaries at angles of 
less than 45 degrees. Tertiaries transverse. Margins entire 
throughout. Texture coriaceous. 
This characteristic leaf is probably the end term of a series of 
forms starting with Araliopsis cretacea, but whether it represents 
an extreme of variation of that species or a distinct but related 
species cannot now be definitely determined. The present form 
suggests various species from the Dakota sandstone of the West, 
which Professor Lesquereux referred to the genus Cissites. It is 
also similar to the form from the Cenomanian of Bohemia de- 
scribed by Velenovsky* as Aralia anisiloba, differing slightly in 
outline and lacking the remotely dentate margins of the latter. 
OccURRENCE: Bull Mountain, Cecil County, Md. 
CoLLEctTIONs: Maryland Geological Survey. 
DIospyROS PRIMAEVA Heer 
Diospyros primaeva Heer, Phyll. Crét. Nebr. 19. pl. z. f. 6, 7: 
1866. 
This well characterized species was described from the Dakota 
* Velenovsky, Fl. Bohm. Kreidef, 1: 22. pl. 5. f. 4-6. 1882. 
