﻿Berry: 
  Contributions 
  to 
  Mesozoic 
  Flora 
  401 
  

  

  Ficus 
  Stephensoni 
  Berry 
  

   Ficus 
  ovatifolia 
  Berry 
  

   icus 
  CRASSIPES 
  (Heer") 
  Heer 
  

  

  t. 
  

  

  crassipes 
  Heer, 
  Fl. 
  Foss. 
  Arct. 
  3^: 
  no. 
  pL 
  ji, 
  /. 
  

  

  1874. 
  

  

  Ficus 
  crassipes 
  Heer, 
  Ibtd. 
  6^: 
  70. 
  pL 
  77, 
  /. 
  ga; 
  pL 
  24 
  J, 
  1, 
  2. 
  1882 
  : 
  

   Lesquereux, 
  Men. 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geol. 
  Surv. 
  17: 
  79. 
  pi 
  iJiI-S- 
  i%92\ 
  

   Berry, 
  Bull. 
  Torrey 
  Club 
  33: 
  172. 
  1906. 
  

   The 
  leaves 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  as 
  they 
  occur 
  in 
  the 
  southern 
  Coastal 
  

  

  Plain 
  are 
  narrowly 
  lanceolate 
  with 
  a 
  gradually 
  narrowed 
  apex 
  

  

  1" 
  ^ 
  ■ 
  ' 
  ' 
  

  

  and 
  base, 
  about 
  15 
  cm. 
  In 
  length 
  by 
  2.5 
  era. 
  in 
  greatest 
  width, 
  

   resembhng 
  Ficus 
  atavtna 
  Heer 
  in 
  outhne 
  but 
  relatively 
  narrower. 
  

   The 
  texture 
  is 
  coriaceous 
  and 
  the 
  midrib 
  and 
  petiole 
  often 
  extra- 
  

   ordinarily 
  stout. 
  The 
  secondary 
  venation 
  when 
  seen 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  

   usual 
  camptodrome 
  type 
  with 
  relatively 
  long 
  ascending 
  secon- 
  

   daries. 
  This 
  species 
  was 
  described 
  originally 
  from 
  the 
  Atane 
  

   beds 
  of 
  western 
  Greenland, 
  the 
  first 
  rather 
  fragmentary 
  specimens 
  

   collected 
  having 
  suggested 
  the 
  genus 
  Proteoides. 
  It 
  was 
  sub- 
  

   sequently 
  recorded 
  from 
  the 
  Dakota 
  sandstone 
  of 
  Kansas. 
  In 
  

   the 
  Atlantic 
  Coastal 
  Plain 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  Tuscaloosa, 
  

   Magothy, 
  Eutaw, 
  Middendorf 
  and 
  Ripley 
  formations. 
  In 
  the 
  

   Black 
  Creek 
  formation 
  of 
  North 
  Carolina 
  it 
  is 
  found 
  at 
  Court 
  

   House 
  BlufT, 
  Cape 
  Fear 
  River, 
  Bladen 
  County. 
  

  

  Ficus 
  fructus 
  

  

  Typical 
  Ficus 
  fruits 
  occur 
  at 
  several 
  localities 
  in 
  the 
  Black 
  

   Creek 
  formation. 
  At 
  Court 
  House 
  Blufif 
  they 
  are 
  associated 
  

   with 
  at 
  least 
  five 
  foliar 
  species 
  of 
  Ficus. 
  They 
  are 
  about 
  2.3 
  cm. 
  

   in 
  length 
  by 
  i.i 
  cm. 
  in 
  maximum 
  diameter. 
  Among 
  previously 
  

   described 
  forms 
  they 
  are 
  very 
  close 
  to, 
  if 
  not 
  identical 
  with, 
  the 
  

   figs 
  described 
  by 
  Heer 
  from 
  the 
  Atane 
  beds 
  of 
  Greenland 
  and 
  

   referred 
  on 
  the 
  basis 
  of 
  association 
  to 
  Ficus 
  atavtna 
  Heer.* 
  The 
  

   last 
  is 
  a 
  widespread 
  Upper 
  Cretaceous 
  species 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  

   found 
  in 
  the 
  Middendorf 
  beds 
  of 
  South 
  Carolina. 
  

  

  Localities: 
  Court 
  House 
  Bluff 
  and 
  Elizabethtown, 
  Cape 
  

  

  Fear 
  River, 
  Bladen 
  County. 
  

  

  * 
  Heer, 
  FI. 
  Foss. 
  Arct. 
  3=* 
  io8. 
  pi. 
  30. 
  /- 
  5-7- 
  i874- 
  

  

  