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appears to be especially true of the forms from 

 the Cenomanian of Bohemia identified by 

 Velenovsky. 



Tmuvus phjfonia is imcommon in the Raritan 

 formation, and I have found it only near the 

 top. It is abundant in the overlying Magothy 

 formation from New Jersey to Maryland. In 

 the southern Coastal Plain it occurs in the 

 Middendorf arkose member of the Black 

 Creek formation of South Carolina and ranges 

 from the base of the Tuscaloosa formation 

 upward into the Eutaw formation in the 

 Alabama area. It was identified by Ward 

 from the Cheyenne sandstone of Chatman 

 Creek, Kans., but his material, which I have 

 studied, is not this species but represents 

 leaflets of Sapindopsis. 



A single complete and characteristic leaf 

 and several fragments are contained in the 

 collections from ArtliTirs Bluff, Tex. 



Laurus antecedens Lesquereux? 



Laurus antecedens Lesquereux, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 

 17, p. 92, pi. 11, fig. 3, 1891 [1892]. 

 Hollick, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 50, p. 80, pi. 28, 

 figs. 9, 10, 190fi. 



This species, the type locality of which is 

 simply "Dakota sandstone of Kansas (Lacoe 

 collection)," is at best of doubtful validity. 

 It was described by Lesquereux as follows: 



Leaf membraneous, lanceolate, gradually tapering to 

 the apex, narrowed to the base, not decurrent, somewhat 

 curved to one side, entire, irregularly undulate; median 

 nerve thick; secondaries oblique, curved, parallel, but of 

 unequal thickness and distance, camptodrome. The 

 leaf is 11 centimeters long, 2.5 centimeters broad below 

 the middle, slightly inequilateral by the partial contrac- 

 tion of the borders on one side, and is not gradually nar- 

 rowed to the petiole but somewhat rountled in narromng 

 to it. Its precise relation is not satisfactorily ascertained. 



The Texas material is fragmentary and of 

 doubtful identity. 



Genus LAUROPHYLLTJM Goeppert. 



Laurophyllum minus Newberry. 



Laurophyllum minus Newberry, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 

 26, p. 87, pi. 17, figs. 7-9, 1895 [1896], 

 Berry, N. J. Geol. Survey Bull. 3, p. 149, 1911; 

 Torrey Hot. Club Bull., vol. 39, p. 402, 1912. 



This species, which is of doubtful validity, 

 was described from material collected in the 

 Raritan formation of New Jersey, and I have 

 found it only in the upper part of that forma- 

 tion. In the absence of venation characters 



in both the type and later collected material 

 its identification is always more or less uncer- 

 tain; and it may represent a variety of Tmutus 

 plutonia Heer or some of the forms that have 

 been referred to Myrica longa Heer, although 

 in general it is wider than the latter and more 

 elongated and less symmetrical than the for- 

 mer. A single specimen is present in the collec- 

 tion from Arthurs Bluft', Tex. 



Order MYRTALES. 



Family MYRTACEAE. 



Genus MYRTONITJM Ettingshausen. 



Myrtonium geinitzi (Heer) Berry. 



Myrtophylhim geinitzi Heer, Kreideflora von Moletein in 



Mahren, p. 22, pi. 11, figs. 3, 4, 1872; Flora fossilis 



arctica, vol. 3, Abt. 2, p. 116, pi. 32, figs. 14-17, 1874. 

 Fric, Naturw. Landes. Bohmen Archiv, vol. 4, No. 1, 



pp. 18, 94, 1878. 

 Hollick, New York Acad. Sci. Trans., vol. 12, p. 236, 



pi. 6, fig. 2, 1893. 

 Myrtophyllum wardtri Lesquereux, U. S. Geol. Survey 



Mon. 17, p. 136, pi. 53, fig. 10, 1892. 

 Hollick, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 50, p. 97, pi. 35, fig. 



13, 1906. 

 Eucalyptiis? angixstifoVm Newterry, U. S. Geol. Survey 



Mon. 26, p. Ill, pi. 32, figs. 1, 6, 7, 1896. 

 Hollick, New York Hot. Garden Bull., vol. 3, p. 408, 



pi. 70, figs. 8, 9, 1894; U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 50, 



p. 95, pi. 35, figs. 9, 14, 15, 1906. 

 Eucalyptus geinitzi Heer, Flora fossilis arctica, vol. 6, Abt. 



2, p. 93, pi. 19, fig. Ic; pi. 45, figs. 4-9; pi. 46, figs. 



12c, d, 13, 1882. 

 Engelhardt, Naturwiss. Gesell. Isis in Dresden Abh. 



7, p. 102, 1891. 

 Lesquereux, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 17, p. 138, pi. 



37, fig. 20, 1892. 

 Newterry, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 26, p. 110, pi. 32, 



figs. 2, 12, 15, 16, 1896. 

 Krasser, Beitriige zur Kenntniss der fossilen Kreide- 

 flora von Kunstadt in Mahren, p. 22, 1896. 

 Fric and Bayer, Naturw. Landes. Bohmen Archiv, 



vol. 11, No. 2, I . 142, tig. 110, 1901. 

 Berry, New York Bot. Garden Bull., vol. 3, p. 87, pi. 



pi. fig. 3, 1903; Torrey Bot. Club Bidl., vol. 31, p. 78, 



pi. 4, fig. 5, 1904; vol. 33, p. 180, 1906; vol. 34, p. 



201, pi. 15, fig. 4, 1907;.vol. 37, p. 26, 1910; vol. 



39, p. 402, 1912; New Jersey Geol. Survey Ann. 



Rept. for 1905, p. 138; 1906. 

 Hollick, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 50, p. 96, jil. 35, 



figs. 1-8, 10-12, 1906. 

 Hollick, New York Bot. Garden Bull., vol. 8, p. 166, 



pi. 180, figs. 1, 2, 1912. 

 Berry, IT. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 84, p. 56, pi. 



13, figs. 8-12; pi. 14, fig. 1, 1914; New Jersey Geol. 



Siu-vey Bidl. 3, p. 189, 1911; Maryland Geol. Siu- 



vey, Upper Cretaceous, p. 870, pi. 81, figs. 1-5, 



1916; U. S, Geol. Siirvey Prof. Paper 112, p. 126, 



pi. 28, fig. 8, 1919. 



