Berry : Mesozoic 



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Occurrence: Locality unknown. 

 Collections: New York Botanical Garden, 



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Myrica Hollicki Ward, Amen Jour. Sci. 45: 437. 1893 



Myrica grajidifolia Hollick, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 12 : 5. //. j. 



f. I, 1892, Not Schimper, 1872. 



Leaves of large size, 18-22 cm. \n length by 4-6 cm. in 

 width, broadly lanceolate, widest near the middle and tapering 

 equally to the acuminate apex and the cuneate base. Margins 

 entire for a short distance above the base, elsewhere sharply ser- 

 rate. Petiole long and stout. Midrib also stout. Secondaries 

 slender, very numerous, being not more than 2-"^ mm. apart, 

 branching from the midrib at angles of 45° or slightly more, sub- 

 dividing and inosculating near the margin and sending branches 

 into the marginal teeth. [Plate 18, figure 2.] 



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The type of this exceedingly handsome species is a single in- 

 complete specimen collected at Tottenville, Staten Island, sixteen 

 or more years ago and now preserved in the museum of the 

 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. A single speci- 

 men was collected from the Lower Raritan at Milltown. It is a 

 larger, slightly broader leaf with slightly less prominent teeth but 

 is obviously identical with the type. 



Occurrence : Milltown. 



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Collections: U. S. National Museum. 



Quercus raritanensis nom. nov. 



Qtierais Johns tmpi^Qwh , FL Amboy Clays 6g,pl. ig.f. 7. 1896. 

 Not Heer. 



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Leaves ovate, subcoriaceous, apparently about 8-9 cm. in length 

 by 4.5 cm. in width, pointed abov^e. Margin with coarse pointed 

 teeth, separated by rounded sinuses. 



The New Jersey occurrence of this species is based on the 

 single obscure fragment of the terminal half of a leaf figured by 

 Professor Newberry and identified with Quercus Johnsirupi Heer, 

 a Greenland species. The New Jersey form is obviously not the 

 same as Heer's, which has pointed instead of rounded sinuses and 

 IS a smaller, more MyricaAik^ leaf, with the marginal teeth den- 

 tate rather than serrate. 



The present species considerably resembles an undescribed 

 Quercus from the Cretaceous of North and South Carolina but 



