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Ficus KRAUSIANA Heer 

 Plate LIX, Fig. 1 



Ficus krausiana Heer, 1869, Neue Denks, chw. Ges., Bd. xxiii, p. 15, pi. v, 



figs. 3-6. 

 Ficus krausiana Fric, 1878, Archiv. Naturw. Landes, Eohm., Bd. iv, No. 



1, pp. 18, 94. 

 Ficus beckwithii Lesquereux, 1883, Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 46, pi. xvi, figs. 



5; pi. xvii, figs. 3, 4. 

 f Ficus suspecta Velenovsky, 1885, Fl. Bohm, Kreidef., Theil iv, p. 10, pi. 



v, figs. 6, 9. 

 Ficus atavina Hollick, 1892, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xi, p. 103, pi. iv, 



figs. 4, 6 (non Heer). 

 Ficus krausiana Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 81, 



pi. i, fig. 5. 



Ficus krausiana Hollick, 1895, Bull. Geo. Soc. Amer., vol. vii, p. 13. 

 Ficus krausiana Hollick, 1898, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xi, p. 59, pi. iii, 



fig. 1. 

 Ficus krausiana Fric and Bayer, 1901, Archiv. Naturw. Landes Bohm., Bd. 



xi, No. 2, p. 117. 

 Ficus krausiana Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 58, pi. ix, 



fig. 9; pi. x, figs. 1-3. 



Ficus krausiana Berry, 1906, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiii, p. 172. 

 Ficus krausiana Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 84, pp. 



38, 110, pi. xi, figs. 4-7; pi. xix, fig. 4. 



Description. Leaves of large size, ovate-lanceolate in outline, broadest 

 at or below the middle. Apex and base acutely pointed, the apex often 

 extended and attenuated. Petiole and midrib stout. Secondaries regu- 

 lar, open, thin, ascending, camptodrome, branching from the midrib at 

 angles of 45 or more. Length about 17 cm. Greatest width about 4 cm. 



This well known Upper Cretaceous species was described originally 

 from the Cenomanian of Moravia, and it has been subsequently recorded 

 from both the Cenomanian and Turonian of Bohemia. It occurs at a 

 large number of American localities. In the West it occurs in the 

 Dakota sandstone, while in the East it is common from Marthas Vineyard 

 to Alabama, and is present between these limits in Maryland, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. These occurrences are all in beds 

 of Magothy age or younger. In both North and South Carolina Ficuz 

 fruits are associated with this species, but whether they are to be referred 

 to it or to some of the other rather numerous species of Ficus which 



