812 SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 



CLASS DICOTYLEDONAE 



Order MYR1CALES 

 Family MYRICACEAE 



Genus MY RICA Linne 

 [Sp. PL, 1753, p. 1024] 



MYRICA LONGA (Heer) Heer 

 Plate LVII, Figs. 1-3 



Proteoides longus Heer, 1874, Fl. Foss. Arct., Bd. iii, Ab. ii, p. 110, pi. xxix, 



fig. 8b; pi. xxxi, figs. 4, 5. 

 Proteoides longus Dawson, 1883, Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, vol. i, sec. iv, p. 



22, pi. ii, fig. 8. 

 Myrica longa Heer, 1883, Fl. Foss. Arct., Bd. vi, Ab. ii, p. 65, pi. xviii, fig. 



9b; pi. xxix, figs. 15-17; pi. xxxiii, fig. 10; pi. xli, fig. 4d. 

 Myrica longa Heer, 1883, Ibidem, Bd. vii, p. 21. 

 Myrica longa Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 67, pi. 



iii, figs. 1-6. 



Myrica longa Bartsch, 1896, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist., Iowa Univ., vol. iii, p. 180. 

 Myrica longa Knowlton, 1901, 21st Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Survey, pt. vii, p. 



314, pi. xxxix, fig. 7. 

 Myrica longa Berry, 1906, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiii, p. 170. 



Description. Leaves of various sizes, linear to lanceolate in outline, 

 with a stout midrib, numerous thin, ascending, camptodrome secondaries, 

 entire margins, obtusely pointed apex, narrowly decurrent base and long 

 stout petiole. 



This species was described by Heer as a Proteoides and subsequently 

 referred to the genus Myrica. It occurs in both the Atane and Patoot 

 beds of Greenland, in the Dakota sandstones of the West, in the Magothy 

 formation of Maryland, in the Woodbine formation of Texas, and is very 

 common in the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama. Abroad it has been 

 recorded 1 from the lower Turonian of Bohemia. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County; 

 Bodkin Point, Kound Bay, Little Round Bay, Anne Arundel County. 



Collections. Maryland Geological Survey, U. S. National Museum. 



1 Fri, Archiv. Naturw. Landes Bohm., Bd. iv, No. 1, 1878, pp. 18, 94. 



