838 SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County; 

 Bound Bay, Anne Arundel County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



Genus ILL.ICIUM Linne 

 [Syst, ed. x, 1759, p. 1050] 



ILLIOIUM DELETOIDES n. sp. 

 Plate LXX, Fig. 6 



Description. Leaves of relatively small size, lanceolate in general out- 

 line, with an acuminate apex and a narrowly decurrent base. Length 

 about 9 cm. Maximum width, in the middle part of the leaf, about 

 1.5 cm. to 2 cm. Margins entire, but usually more or less undulate. 

 Texture coriaceous. Petiole not preserved. Midrib stout, prominent, 

 more or less flexuous. Secondaries about ten subopposite to alternate pairs, 

 diverging from the midrib at wide angles (about 65 ), pursuing relatively 

 straight courses two-thirds of the distance to the margins, where they turn 

 upward to form wide ascending camptodrome arches. 



This species may be compared with a variety of described species in 

 unrelated genera, as, for example, in the genera Nyssa, Daphne, Apocy- 

 num, Andromeda, and various Lauracece; but it is believed to have more 

 in common with Illicium, in which only two other Cretaceous species are 

 known. These are Illicium deletum Velenovsky 1 from the Cenomanian 

 of Bohemia and Illicium watereensis Berry 2 from the Middendorf beds of 

 South Carolina. The present species differs from the latter in its less 

 numerous and less ascending secondaries. It is very close to the Bohemian 

 species, which fact has suggested the specific name of this form. It is a 

 more slender leaf with fewer secondaries, and would, but for its wide geo- 

 graphical separation, probably be considered to be merely a variant of the 

 Bohemian type. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County. 



Collection. U. S. National Museum. 



1 Velenovsky, Fl. Bohm. Kreideform., Theil iii, 1884, p. 4, pi. iii, fig. 5. 



2 Berry, E. W., Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 84, p. 44, pi. xiv, fig. 8, 

 1914. 



