BERRY: MESOZOIC FLORA OF ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 393 
discovery of a large and rather complete specimen in the Magothy 
formation of Maryland. The latter shows the terminal part of 
two approximately parallel and curved twigs, about I2 cm. in 
length, united proximad. These in their thickest portion are only 
6mm. in diameter. At intervals of from 3 mm. to 5 mm., sub- 
opposite lateral branches are given off in a pinnate manner. 
These are relatively much elongated, curved, and slender, averag- 
ing about 4 cm. in length by 2 mm. in diameter, bluntly pointed 
and not tapering to any appreciable extent. These have been 
infrequently observed to fork pseudo-dichotomously, and at times 
they give off toward their distal ends tiny lateral branchlets less 
than a centimeter in length and about one millimeter in diameter. 
The general proportions are thus decidedly different from the 
Parent type. The leaves are slightly smaller and smoother and 
somewhat more elongated in their relative proportions, at the 
same time lacking the apical papillae and the convergent striae. 
The new variety is much more graceful than the type in appear- 
ance, and in its general aspect suggests the Lower Cretaceous 
genus Arthrotaxopsis. The most closely allied form appears to 
be one from the Albian of Portugal, described by Saporta* as 
Brachyphyllum obesiforme elongatum. There is also considerable 
resemblance to Brachyphyllum crassicaule Fontaine of the Patapsco 
formation in Maryland and Virginia. Remains of this new variety 
are associated with the type in Maryland; they are abundant 
throughout the Tuscaloosa of Alabama, ranging upward into the 
: | part of the Eutaw formation in both Alabama and western 
Tgia, 
MYRICALES (?) 
MyYRICA EMARGINATA Heer 
Myrica emarginata Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct. 62: 66. pl. 4. f.2. 1882. 
—Lesquereux, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv. 17: 67. pl. 12. f. 1: 
1892.—Newberry, Mon. U.S. Geol. Surv. 26: 62. pl. 41. f. 10, 
ioe 1896.—Berry, Bull. N. J. Geol. Surv. 3: 104. pl. 10. f. 5. 
QII. 
a hg obovate in outline, widest at the rounded-truncate and 
€ss emarginate apex. Margins entire, narrowing to the 
€. Midrib medium stout, inclined to be somewhat 
* 
Saporta, FI. Foss. Portugal 176. pl. 31. f. 14. 1894. 
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