MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 781 



Family BRACHYPHYLLACEAE 



Genus BRACHYPHYLLUM Brongniart 



[Prodrome, 1828, p. 109] 



BRACHYPHYLLUM MACROCARPUM Newberry 



Plate LIV, Figs. 4, 5 



Moriconia cyclotoxon Heer, 1883, Fl. Foss. Arct, Bd. vii, pi. liv, fig. Ic (non 



Heer's other figures). 



Thuites crassus Lesquereux, 1884, Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 32. 

 Brachyphyllum crassum Lesquereux, 1887, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. x, p. 34. 



p. 34. 

 Brachyphyllum crassum Lesquereux, 1892, Fl. Dakota Group, p. 32, pi. ii, 



fig. 5. 

 Brachyphyllum crassum Newberry, 1896, Fl. Amboy Clays, p. 51, pi. vii, 



figs. 1-7. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Newberry, 1896, Fl. Amboy Clays, Ms. name 



mentioned in footnote, p. 51. 

 f Brachyphyllum sp. Knowlton, 1897, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. viii, pp. 



137, 140. 

 f Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Knowlton, 1900, Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, 



No. 163, p. 29, pi. iv, figs. 5, 6. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Rollick, 1904, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. 



iii, p. 406, pi. vii, figs. 4, 5. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Berry, 1905, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 



xxxii, p. 44, pi. ii, fig. 9. 



Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Berry, 1906, Ibidem, vol. xxxiii, p. 168, pi. ix. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Berry, 1906, Ann. Kept. State Geol. Survey 



of New Jersey for 1905, p. 139. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Hollick and Jeffrey, 1906, Amer. Nat., vol. 



xl, p. 200. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 



1, p. 44, pi. iii, figs. 9, 10. 



Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, New Jersey Geol. Sur- 

 vey, p. 81, pi. vii. 

 Brachyphyllum macrocarpum Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, 



No. 84, p. 21, pi. iii, fig. 2. 



Description. Stout twigs with club-shaped, pinnately arranged 

 branches, covered with large, thick, rhomboidal, squamate, densely 

 crowded, appressed leaves attached by practically their whole ventral 

 surface. Phyllotaxy spiral. Leaf more or less striated, the striae con- 

 verging toward the obtuse papillate apex. Cones not positively deter- 

 mined. 



