78 BERRY: FLORA OF THE MATAWAN FORMATION 
LAURUS PROTEAEFOLIA Lesq. (PLATE I, FIGURE I0.) 
The leaf figured is of lauraceous texture and denotes a some- 
what more slender leaf than Lesquereux’s type specimens. The 
specimen figured was accidentally destroyed. 
SASSAFRAS PROGENITOR Newb. (PLATE I, FIGURE 3.) 
Sassafras progenitor Newb.; Hollick, Bull. Torrey Club, 21: 53. f/. 174. fi 7+ 
1894. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 7: 13. 1895. Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 88. 
pl. 27. f. 1-3. 1896. Berry, Bot. Gaz. 34: 442. 1902. 
While it may seem. unwise to illustrate and include such an 
incomplete fragment, the exploitation of such imperfect specimens 
may often be of more importance in the study of ancient floras 
than that of more perfect and precisely definable remains. The 
specimen figured, which was the only one found, shows a part of 
the central and lateral lobes of a leaf that agrees fairly well with 
this species (compare with Newberry’s fig. 2). This is probably 
a true species of Sassafras. 
Sapinpus Morrison! Lesq. 
The present season’s collections contain larger leaves of this 
species than those found in this formation in 1902. 
CELASTROPHYLLUM NEWBERRYANUM Hollick. 
Hollick obtained this species at Cliffwood a number of years 
ago. It was not contained in my 1902 collections, but a single 
specimen was collected on July 29, 1903. ? 
Eucatyptus GEINITZI Heer. (PLATE 4, FIGURE 5.) 
The specimen figured from my 1903 collections is more decis- 
ive than the one previously found at this locality, and shows con-_ 
siderable details of venation. It is a fragment 6.8 cm. long of 4 
linear, somewhat falcate leaf nearly 2 cm. in width, with numerous 
secondaries which leave the midrib at a wide angle and run with- 
out curving nearly to the margin, along which they loop in flat 
arches. This species resembles somewhat the leaf referred by 
Saporta and Marion and by Hollick to Aralia transversinervia, 
which leaf is almost certainly not an Aralia. It also resembles 4 
single lobe of what I have called Sterculia Cliffwoodensis trom 
this formation. 
