192 Berry: MEsozoIcC FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
any other leaves with which comparisons have been made. It is 
a somewhat smaller leaf with a rounded tip and marginal crena- 
tions which are wide but lacking the crenulations of the rounded 
crenations of the Carolina leaf. Various American Tertiary species 
of Myrica are similar enough to be looked upon as possible des- 
cendants of this Cretaceous species; for instance, Lesquereux’s 
Myrica rigida and M. callicomaefoha from the Green river shales. 
There is considerable resemblance to a number of European Ter- 
tiary species, hardly worth noting however in this connection. 
There is also a general resemblance to those Tertiary forms which 
Heer and Unger referred to Comptonia vindobonensis, except that 
the margin is serrated in the latter, while in those leaves which 
lack the serrations,as those which Ettingshausen and Saporta 
have referred to this species, the leaf is long andnarrow. Among 
Jeaves which might be mistaken for Myrica, similarities may be 
noticed to some of the leaves which Lesquereux refers to Ahus, 
e. g., Rhus acuminata, while the leaves of some species of Quercus 
often approach this style of leaf as may be seen in Quercus 
Marioni Heer and Quercus Johnstrupi Heer from the Greenland 
Cretaceous. 
FAGALES 
Quercus Pratti sp. nov. PLATE II, FIGURE 9 
A single fragment of what was rather a good-sized leaf of 
Quercus occurs in the material from Court House Bluff. It is 6 
cm. long and 3.5 cm. wide, and does not show base, tip or mar- 
gins. The midrib is stout and flexuous, although the latter charac- 
ter seems to be due to the manner of preservation which has bent 
what would be otherwise a straight midrib. Secondaries numer- 
ous, regular, parallel, alternate and stout ; they leave the midrib at 
a wide angle and are nearly straight. 
This fragment closely resembles Quercus Ellsworthiana and 
Q. Wardiana from the Dakota group, and if the outline was also 
analogous to that of those leaves, it would show an ovate or ob- 
ovate, rather thick leaf with a repand or undulate margin, remotely 
suggestive of the modern chestnut oaks. There is also some re- 
semblance to the leaves which Lesquereux refers to /uglandites, 
and to Quercus sphenobasis Hos. & V. D. Marck from the Senonian 
of Westphalia. 
Quercus is a decidedly upper Cretaceous and later type, for 
