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Berry: FLorA oF THE MATAWAN FORMATION | 
LrriopENDROpsIS Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 82. 1896 
Comparatively small simple emarginate leaves of the mid-creta- 
taceous, which are ancestral to the more typical species of Lirio- 
dendron. In view of the wide limits of variation exhibited by the 
living descendant of these early forms, I am inclined to question 
the wisdom of generic separation, particularly as the lines of de- 
marcation between the species of the semplex-primaevum group 
have not been, nor can they be, closely drawn. 
Saporta has described remains from the Cenomanian of Padrao 
Portugal, under the name of Chondrophyton laceratum* which 
Ward renames + Liriodendropsis lacerata and which he considers 
very close if not identical with the leaves of this type from the 
Raritan. I cannot concur in this reference. The remains in 
question are very vague. Saporta figures two possible interpre- 
tations, which are quite dissimilar both in venation and in the 
character of the apex; and the veins, both secondary and tertiary 
are depicted as running directly to the margin. The parallelism 
between the Cretaceous flora of Portugal and that of the United 
States is close and there is no reason why this type of plant may 
not have evolved independently in both regions, although in my 
opinion the remains do not, as yet, corroborate this supposition. 
LIRIODENDROPSIS ANGUSTIFOLIA Newb. (PLATE 4, FIGURE 4.) 
Liriodendropsis on Newb. Bull. Torrey Club, 14: 6 (in part). pl. 62. f. 
I. Amboy Clays, 84. f/. 57. f 8 1896. Hollick, Trans. N. 
Y. Acad. ag 12: 235 (in part). pl. 5. f. 3 pl. 7. f. 3- 1893. Bull. 
Geol. Soc. Am. 7: 13. 1895. 
While the absence of the apex makes this reference provisional 
in view of minor differences in form and venation, I am inclined to 
so refer it. It is a species we would naturally expect to find in 
this formation because of its abundance in the Raritan both in 
New Jersey and the Islands. 
Laurus PLUTONIA Heer. (PLATE 3, FIGURE I.) 
A thick lauraceous leaf common at Cliffwood. 
Laurus Hotiicxi Berry. (PLATE 3, FIGURE 2.) 
This species appears to be fairly common at Cliffwood. 
* Saporta, FI. Foss. Fowt. 219. pl. 38. f: gr 5- 1894. 
+ Ward, Rep. U. S, Geol. Surv. 16: 540. 1896. 
