834 SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 



MAGNOLIA OBTUSATA Heer 

 Plate LXVIII, Figs. 2-4 



Magnolia capellinii Heer, 1874, Fl. Foss. Arct, Bd. iii, Ab. ii, pi. xxxiii, 



fig. 4. 

 Magnolia obtusata Heer, 1882, Fl. Foss. Arct, Bd. vi, Ab. ii, p. 90, pi. xv, 



fig. 12, pi. xxi, fig. 3. 

 Magnolia obtusata Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 



201, pi. Ix, figs. 5, 6. 



Magnolia obtusata Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 76, pi. 



xlvii, fig. 4. 

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



Description. Leaves of variable size, oblong-ovate or obovate in out- 

 line, entire, with a broadly rounded apex and a narrowed cuneate base, 

 ranging from 7 cm. to 14 cm. in length, and 2.4 cm. to 7 cm. in greatest 

 width, which is above the middle. Petiole and midrib stout. Secondaries 

 few in number ascending, curved, camptodrome. Texture coriaceous. 



This species was described from the Atane beds of Greenland by Heer, 

 and was based upon rather fragmentary material. Subsequently Lesque- 

 reux recorded some fine specimens from the Dakota group of Kansas. 

 It is present in the Magothy formation from New Jersey to Maryland, 

 and in beds of homotaxial age in South Carolina. In western Alabama 

 it appears to be confined to the lower Tuscaloosa of Fayette County. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County. 



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



MAGNOLIA BOULAYANA Lesquereux 

 Plate LXIX, Fig. 1 



Magnolia boulayana Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 



202, pi. Ix, fig. 2. 



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



pi. clxxv, figs. 1, 7. 



Magnolia glaucoides Smith, 1894, Geol. Coastal Plain in Alabama, p. 348. 

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



74, pi. Ivii, figs. 1-4. 

 Magnolia boulayana Knowlton, 1901, Twenty-first Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. 



Survey, pt. vii, p. 318. 

 Magnolia glaucoides Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, fig. 6, 



p. 67, pi. xix, fig. 6; pi. xx, fig. 6. 



