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BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 195 
Macnouia Capen Heer, Phyll. Crét. Nebr. 21. pl. 3. f. 5, 6. 
1866. PLATE 12, FIGURES 4, 5 
A clearly defined and widespread Cretaceous species repre- 
sented by several good specimens in the material from Court 
House Bluff, which, taken together, show the whole leaf with the 
exception of a small portion of the extreme base. The texture is 
coriaceous, the midrib is straight and stout, the secondaries are 
regular, alternate and camptodrome ; the tip is acute and very 
slightly produced as in some of Heer’s forms from Greenland, * 
in fact, the Carolina leaves resemble more closely those from 
Greenland than they do the other leaves which have been referred 
to this species. It is true that Heer includesa leaf with a rounded 
tip with the others but this should probably be referred to the 
same author’s Magnolia obtusata. The type leaves from Ne- 
braska as well as those from Long Island and New Jersey are 
somewhat smaller. The species has also been recorded from Van- 
couver Island by Dawson and from Bohemia by Velenovsky, 
although the leaves which the latter figures as Magnolia Capellini 
are rather doubtful fragments and not nearly so similar to the 
other leaves of this species*as, for instance, his pl. 7,f- 7, which 
he identifies as Magnolia amplifolia Heer. 
Magnolia Newberryi PLATE 13, FIGURE 6 
Magnolia longifolia Newb. ; Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 12: 
36. pl. 3. f. 9. 1892. (Not M7. longifolia Sweet.) 
This leaf has already been found on Marthas Vineyard and 
Staten Island, at Woodbridge, New Jersey, and in the Tuscaloosa 
formation in Alabama. It is one of the largest of our fossil mag- 
nolias, its oblong leaves sometimes measuring a foot in length and 
four inches in width. The North Carolina material is from Court 
House Bluff and consists of the specimen figured and its counter- 
part. It shows the imperfect central part of a large leaf and is 
11 cm. long by 5.5 cm. in width and does not show either margins, 
tip or base indicating that the entire leaf fully equaled some of 
Newberry’s larger leaves in size. The midrib is very strong as 
are the characteristic secondaries. 
The name given to this species by Newberry had unfortunately 
Hews, Fi. Foss. Arct. 62: pl. 25. f- 1) 3? pl. 45-f- T- 1882. 
