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Magnolia capellinii FriC and Bayer, 1901, Archiv. Naturw. Landes. Bohm., 



Bd. xi, Nr. ii, p. 127. 

 Magnolia capellinii Hollick, 1904, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 413, 



pi. Ixxviii, fig. 3. 

 Magnolia capellinii Berry, 1904, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. xxxi, p. 76, pi. iii, 



fig. 3. 

 Magnolia capellinii Berry, 1906, Ann. Rept. State Geol. of New Jersey for 



1905, p. 138. 

 Magnolia capellinii Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 63, pi. 



xvii, figs. 3, 4. 

 Magnolia capellinii Berry, 1907, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiv, p. 195, 



pi. xii, figs. 4, 5. 



Magnolia capellinii Berry, 1911, Ibidem, vol. xxxviii, p. 406. 

 Magnolia capellinii Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 84, pp. 



43, 112, pi. xx, fig. 6. 



Description. " M. foliis coriaceis, late ovalibus, integerrimis, nervis 

 secundariis angulo acuto egredientibus, curvatis, camptodromis." Heer, 

 1866. 



These leaves vary considerably in size, averaging about 13 cm. in 

 length by 7 cm. in width. Outline broadly ovate, the base and apex 

 usually about equally pointed, although occasional specimens have a some- 

 what obtuse apex. The texture is coriaceous or subcoriaceous. Midrib 

 and petiole stout. Secondaries usually seven or eight alternate or sub- 

 opposite pairs at regular intervals, approximately parallel, camptodrome. 



This widespread species in some of its forms approaches quite close to 

 the less narrow and less apically extended forms of Magnolia speciosa 

 Heer. Ordinarily, however, the latter species may be readily distinguished 

 by its relatively narrower form with the produced apex and decurrent base. 



Described originally from the Dakota sandstone by Heer, Magnolia 

 Capellinii has been detected at a large number of localities of homotaxial 

 age, occurring in the Cretaceous of Greenland and of the Pacific Coast, 

 and in the Cenomanian of Bohemia. In the Atlantic Coastal Plain it char- 

 acterizes the Magothy formation and is present in the Black Creek beds of 

 North Carolina, the basal Eutaw of Georgia, and the Tuscaloosa formation 

 of Alabama. It was doubtfully recorded from the New Jersey Raritan by 

 Lesquereux in 1878, but it has never been detected in the abundant col- 

 lections of Raritan plants studied by Professor Newberry and the writer 

 and is not at present admitted to be a member of the Raritan flora. 



