178 Berry: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 
is narrow and is produced as a long, slender, often recurved tip, 
which is one of the characteristic features of the species. This 
tip is strictly comparable with the ‘‘dripping points” developed 
on various leaves in the modern tropics where precipitation is 
heavy. 
Ficus daphnogenoides is a widespread and common form ranging 
from Marthas Vineyard to Texas in eastern North America, and 
from Northwest Territory to Kansas and Nebraska in the Western 
Interior. It occurs in the Woodbine sand of northeastern Texas 
and in the Tuscaloosa formation of the Eastern Gulf area. 
OccuRRENCE: Big Railroad Cut, one mile southwest of Max- 
well Spur, Pike County. 
Ficus CRASSIPES (Heer) Heer 
Proteoides crassipes Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 37: 110. pl. 31. f. 68a. 
1874. 
Ficus crassipes Heer, Ibid. 6: 70. p!.17.f. 0a; pl.24.f.1,2. 1882. 
Leaves entire, narrowly lanceolate in outline, about equally 
tapering to the acuminate apex and base. Length 12-20 cm. 
Greatest width, which is in the middle part of the leaf, 1.8-2.5 cm. 
Texture coriaceous. Midrib stout, often extraordinarily so. 
Secondaries thin, open, ascending, camptodrome. 
This species was described originally from the Atane beds of 
western Greenland, the first rather fragmentary specimens col- 
lected suggested a relationship with the genus Proteoides. Sub- 
sequently the original describer referred it to Ficus, where it 
undoubtedly belongs. Lesquereux has recorded it from the 
Dakota sandstone and it is common in the Magothy formation of 
the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain, and in the Black Creek 
formation of North Carolina. It persists into the Eutaw formation 
of Georgia and is especially common in the Middendorf beds of 
South Carolina. It is not especially common in the Tuscaloosa 
formation, and is a species which is especially characteristic of 
the post-Raritan and pre-Montana horizons of eastern North 
America. It has not yet been discovered in the Woodbine sand 
of Texas but is present in both the lower and upper members of 
the Bingen sand of Arkansas. 
OccuRRENCE: Big Railroad Cut, one mile southwest of Max- 
well Spur; Adams Kaolin cuts near Murfreesboro, Pike County; 
