BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 291 
URTICALES 
MORACEAE 
Ficus Linné 
Ficus crAsstPpEs (Heer) Heer 
Proteoides crassipes Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 32: 110. pl. 31, f. 6-8. 
1874. 
Ficus crassipes Heer, Ibid. 62: 70. pl. 17, f. 9a; pl. 24, f. I, 2. 
1882; Berry, U.S. Dept. Int. Geol. Surv. Professional Paper 
84: 37, 110. pl. ro, f. 12; pl. 12, f. 8-10. 1914. 
The leaves of this species as they occur in the southern Coastal 
Plain are narrowly lanceolate with gradually narrowed apex and 
base, about 15 centimeters in length by 2.5 centimeters in greatest 
width, and resemble Ficus atavina Heer in outline but are relatively 
narrower. The texture is coriaceous and the midrib and petiole 
are extraordinarily stout in many specimens. The secondary 
venation when seen is of the usual camptodrome type with rela- 
tively long, ascending, curved secondaries. 
This species was described originally from the Atane beds of 
western Greenland, the first rather fragmentary specimens col- 
lected having suggested the genus Proteoides. It was subse- 
quently recorded from the Dakota sandstone of Kansas by 
Lesquereux. In the Atlantic Coastal Plain it is found in the 
Magothy and Black Creek formations, including the Midden- 
dorf member of the latter, and it is especially common in clays 
of the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama. It occurs in the basal 
beds of the Eutaw formation in Georgia and the present occurrence 
extends its range upward to near the top of the latter formation. 
OccurRENCE: EUTAW FORMATION, COoFFEE SAND 
MEMBER. Coffee Bluff, Hardin County, Tennessee. 
Ficus KraustanA Heer 
Ficus Krausiana Heer, Neue Denks. Schw. Gesell. 23: 15. pl. 5, 
f. 3-6. 1869; Berry, U.S. Dept. Int. Geol. Surv. Professional 
Paper 84: 38, 110. pl. 12, f. 4-7; Pl. 19, f- 4. 1914- 
Leaves of large size, ovate lanceolate in outline, broadest at 
or below the middle. Apex and base acutely pointed, the apex 
