508 Berry: MESOZOIC FLORA OF THE COASTAL PLAIN 
There was considerable variation in the lobation of these 
leaves as is shown by the specimens figured. It seems very prob- 
able that these two leaves were from a single plant, since it is very 
unlikely that two separate leaves of this size and of the same degree 
of preservation would have found their way out into the Cretaceous 
sea and have come to rest within a few inches of one another in 
this very small clay lens which was not over ten feet in diameter 
and which was several miles from the Cretaceous shore. The one 
leaf has the lobes broadly rounded and each main lobe divided 
Ficure 2. Restoration of a second nearly complete leaf of Manihotites georgiana 
Berry, from the Upper Cretaceous of Georgia. (xX 1/3.33) 
into two nearly equal subordinate lobes, while in the other leaf 
these subordinate lobes are subdivided in a like manner and some 
of these subdivisions are again subdivided. 
The only fossils that are at all comparable to this species are, 
first, the forms from the Raritan formation in New Jersey described 
by Professor Newberry as Fontainea grandifolia;* second, those 
named Haliserites Reichii by Sternbergt from their supposed algal 
nature, although they are clearly angiospermous as Rothpletz has 
*Newberry, Fl. Amboy Clays 96. pl. 45. f. 1-4. 1806. 
TSternberg, Fl. Vorwelt 2: 34. pl. 24. f. 7. 1833 
