BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 303 
EBENALES 
EBENACEAE 
Dtospyros Linné 
Diospyros PRIMAEVA Heer 
Diospyros primaeva Heer, Phyll. Crét. d. Nebr. 19. pl. 1, f. 6, 7. 
1866; Berry, U. S. Dept. Int. Geol. Surv. Professional Paper 
84: 61. pl. 12; fs 35: Ph tay fdas ts 20k, 
Leaves oblong-ovate in outline, variable according to age, 
Tanging from 3-15 cm. in length, by 1.3-5 cm. in greatest width, 
which is in the middle part of the leaf. Apex acute or obtuse. 
ase cuneate. Margins entire. Petiole rather long and very 
Stout. Midrib also stout. Secondaries branching from the 
midrib at usually acute angles, subopposite or alternate, parallel, 
Camptodrome. Tertiaries forming polygonal areoles whose rela- 
tive prominence is one of the features of this species. : 
This species, which is quite suggestive of the modern Diospyros 
virginiana Linné, was described by Heer from the Dakota group 
of Nebraska nearly half a century ago. It has proved to be a 
most wide-ranging form, having been identified at both the 
Atane and Patoot horizons in Greenland; in the Cenomanian of 
Saxony and the Turonian of Bohemia; from various localities 
Within the Dakota group, including its southern extension, the 
Woodbine formation of Texas; and with the exception of the 
fragments from Marthas Vineyard and Long Island, which are of 
questionable identity, it is present in either the Raritan, or 
Magothy, or homotaxial formations from New Jersey to Alabama. 
Its most marked character is the prominence of its tertiary 
areolation. 
OccuRRENCE: EUTAW FORMATION, CoFFEE SAND 
MEMBER. Coffee Bluff, Hardin County, Tennessee. 
INCERTAE SEDIS 
HALYMENITES MAJOR Lesquereux 
Halymenites major Lesquereux, Tertiary Flora 38. pl. 1, f. 7, 8. 
1878. : 
These very common objects, frequently considered as fucoids, 
are abundant in the western United States in sandy beds ranging 
