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the Perucer-schichten of Bohemia (Cenomanian), where the author 

 subsequently found fruit-bearing twigs which he described and 

 figured in 1889 and which, it would seem, conclusively establish 

 the botanical relations of these leaves. 



Subsequently, Saporta {Joe. cii,) recorded this species ^rom the 

 Albian beds of Portugal ; the latter material is, however, rather 

 incomplete and open to question. Recent collections in our own 

 coastal plain show that this species was present in considerable 

 abundance on this side of the Atlantic at the same time that it 

 flourished in Europe. It has been collected from the upper Rari- 

 tan at South Amboy, where it is common, from the Bladen for- 

 mation of South Carolina, and from the Upper Cretaceous of 

 Georgia, and may be somewhat more fully characterized as follows : 



Leaves alternate or scattered, mostly elongated, linear-lanceo- 

 late, often falcate, 4.5-15 cm. in length by 5-13.5 mm. in width, 

 with an attenuated acute tip and a narrowly cuneate base declining 

 to the short and stout petiole. Midrib moderately stout below, 

 becoming attenuated above. Secondaries very numerous, fine, 

 and close, about i mm. apart, parallel, rather straight ; they 

 branch from the midrib at acute angles of about 30° or slightly 

 less and run with but slight curvature to join the well-marked 

 but fine marginal hem, which shows in all the American material 

 and in most of the illustrations of the foreign material. [Plate 

 18, FIGURE 5.] 



In all respects this is one of the most characteristically Eucalyp- 

 ///^-like species of the many which have been so identified ; and its 

 totality of characters combined with the presence o{ attached 

 fruits in the Bohemian material, which are not unlike some of 

 those of modern forms, renders the identification very satisfactory. 



Occurrence : South Amboy. 



Collections: U. S. National Museum. 



Andromeda Cookii nom. nov, 



Andromeda Jlexiiosa Newb, FL Amboy Clays 121.//. j/./l /-j. 

 1896. Not Moon, 1849. 



Leaves coriaceous, variable in size, lanceolate, 6—12 cm, in 

 length by 1.5-3 cm. in width, with an acuminate apex and a 

 somewhat cuneate base. Midrib stout and flexuous. Second- 

 aries strong, somewhat flexuous, branching from the midrib at 



an acute angle and arching upward in long curves, camptodrome. 

 Tertiaries mostly simple, transverse, forming oblong areoles. 



