200 Berry: Mesozoic FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
of Saxony. To be sure, certain Dakota group leaves such as 
Populites = Platanus = Cissites affinis Lesq., Cissites Browniu Lesq., 
Sassafras = Cissites harkerianus Lesq., Cissites = Platanus Heerit 
Lesq., Cissites acuminatus Lesq., and Sterculia Saportanea (Lesq.) 
Knowlton seem very similar to those remains from abroad which 
are referred to Credneria, but the proof or disproof of their generic 
identity can only be determined by a critical investigation and revi- 
sion of the whole subject. 
While such incomplete material as we have from Court House 
Bluff, North Carolina, is scarcely worthy of being described as a 
new species, nevertheless since it is likely to be referred to it has 
seemed best to give it a name and one which would suggest the 
possible generic affinity which it is hoped may be verified at some 
future time. 
THYMELAEALES 
Cinnamomum Heer Lesq. Am. Jour. Sci. 27: 361. 1859. — 
Fl. Dakota Group 105. fl. 75. f. Z. 1892. 
PLATE 13, FIGURES 2, 3. 
This species is very close to Cznnamomum intermedium, from 
which it differs in having a shorter, fuller, and basally rounded 
leaf-blade with thicker veins. Leaves are so rarely found in a 
perfect state, and basal portions of Cizuamomum leaves being 
those largely collected, we may distinguish such fragments by the 
much fuller and rounded base combined with the thicker veins. 
The species which Newberry called C. intermedium is such a com- 
mon form that I have no doubt if we could identify the leaves of 
all stages of growth we would find that C. Heerit was simply the 
shorter fuller leaves of the same tree which bore the more lanceo- 
late leaves known as C. intermedium. At least this is my opinion 
of the leaves as they occur in the Dakota group and Magothy- 
The leaves from Nanaimo and Orcas Island referred to C. Heerii by 
Lesquereux and Newberry respectively seem to be different, but 
as I have only seen figures this cannot be certain. C. Heerit is re- 
ported from Texas by Knowlton, from Marthas Vineyard by Hollick, 
and from South America by Kurtz. It is another of those types — 
of leaf, evidently Lauraceous, which are so common on this contin- 
ent during the later Mesozoic and in Europe during the Tertiary- 
The North Carolina material is from Court House Bluff. 
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