Berry: Mesozoic flora of the coastal plain 173 

 Ficus daphnogenoides (Heer) Berry, Bull. Torrey Club 32 : 



329. //. 21. 1905. Plate i, figure 5. 



This species is a common element in the Magothy formation 

 at Deep Cut, Del., and Grove Point, Md., as it is from other 

 localities in the coastal plain. 



Proteales 



Persoonia Lesouereuxii Knowlt. Fl. Dak. Group 89. //. 20. /. 

 10-12. 1892. 



I his small rounded leaf, narrowed and somewhat produced 

 basally, occurs in the material from the pits of the Cliffwood Brick 

 Co., N. J. It is entirely characteristic of this species. 



Ran ales 



Nelumbo Kempii Hollick, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 3: 412.//. 



74. f. i y 2 ; pi. 75 ; //. 76 ; pi. 77. f. /. 1904. 



This species of Nelumbo, originally considered as related to the 

 palms, is relatively abundant in the Cretaceous of hong Island, 

 but has not been found elsewhere heretofore. The leaves vary 

 greatly in size, so that I have no hesitation in referring the leaves 

 from Morgan, N. J., to this species, although the veins are not so 

 prominent as those of the type material are said to be. My speci- 

 mens, while somewhat fragmentary, are perfectly characteristic, 

 and denote a leaf about 16 cm. in diameter. There are sixteen 

 rather thin radiating veins, and the remains of the thick petiole is 



shown pressed close against the under side of the leaf. The 

 specimen figured shows the upper surface of the leaf and there 

 are faint indications of secondary venation. It is quite probable 

 that the primaries would appear considerably more prominent from 

 the under surface were that exposed. The only other fossil 

 Nelumbo from the coastal plain is Nelumbo primaeva Berry, from 

 the exposure on the beach near Cliffwood, N. J., and this species 

 I am inclined to consider as simply a young leaf of Nelumbo Kempii. 

 As Hollick (Joe. eit.) remarks, Nelumbo Kempii is very similar if 

 not identical with Nelumbium aretieum Heer from the homotaxial 

 Atane beds of Greenland. My specimen differs from this as well 

 as from Hollick's material, as aforesaid, in its thinner venation. 

 In this character the leaf from Morgan, N. J., is comparable with 



