MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 833 



MAGNOLIA LONGIPES Hollick 

 Plate LXIX, Fig. 2 



Magnolia longipes Hollick, 1894, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxi, p. 60, pi. 



clxxviii, fig. 3. 

 Magnolia alternans Ward, 1894 in Smith, Geol. Coastal Plain Ala., p. 348 



(non Heer). 

 Magnolia longipes Newberry, 1896, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, p. 76, 



pi. liv, figs. 1 3. 

 Magnolia longipes ? Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 64, pi. 



xxi, figs. 5, 6. 



Magnolia longipes Berry, 1910, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxvii, p. 23. 

 Magnolia longipes Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 135, 



pi. xiv, fig. 1. 



Description. Leaves oblong-ovate in outline, apparently about 18 cm. 

 in length by 6 cm. or 7 cm. in maximum width, which was below the 

 middle. Apex obtusely rounded. Base usually cuneate. Midrib and 

 petiole very stout, the latter unusually long, reaching 12 cm. or 13 cm. 

 in some specimens. Secondaries camptodrome, relatively thin and remote, 

 ten to twelve pairs, branching from the midrib at angles of about 45 

 and soon curving upward to join a branch from the secondary next above. 

 This forms a series of large arches which approximately parallel the mar- 

 gin, and constitutes one of the distinctive characters of this species, 

 others being the long petiole and the oblong, almost straight-sided, shape. 



This is a very striking Magnolia and is frequent in the middle Karitan 

 at Woodbridge, New Jersey. Fragmentary specimens which have been 

 correlated with these remains are reported from Long Island. It is 

 apparently quite different in appearance from any of the other Cretaceous 

 species of Magnolia, although it suggests somewhat a gigantic form of 

 Magnolia woodbridgensis. It is found in the Magothy formation of 

 Maryland and the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama. In the absence of 

 complete specimens, only the basal part being usually preserved, it is 

 quite possible that the present specimens are not distinct from some of 

 the associated Magnolias. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County. 



Collection. U. S. National Museum. 



