MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SUEVEY 849 



Order SAPINDALES 

 Family 1LICACEAE 



Genus ILEX Linne 

 [Sp. PI., 1753, p. 125] 



ILEX SEVERNENSIS Berry 

 Plate LXXVII, Figs. 1, 2 



Ilex severnensis Berry, 1911, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxviii, p. 407, pi. 

 xix, figs. 1, la. 



Description. Leaves of small size, oblong in general outline, with a 

 cuspidate apex and a narrowly rounded base. Length about 2 cm. Maxi- 

 mum width about 6.5 cm. Texture coriaceous. Margins entire below; 

 above, with a few irregularly spaced salient serrate teeth. Midrib rela- 

 tively stout. Secondary venation thin and more or less obsolete, consist- 

 ing of a vein which forms a marginal hem all around and numerous trans- 

 verse veins between it and the midrib. The latter are for the most part 

 nearly straight, diverging from the midrib at angles of about 90, giving 

 the leaf a scalariform appearance, as shown in the enlarged figure of this 

 form. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Little Eound Bay, Anne Arundel 

 County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



Family CELASTRACEAE 



Genus ELAEODENDRON Jacques, .f. 

 [Nova Acta Helv., vol. I, 1787, p. 36] 



ELJEODENDRON MARYLANDICUM Berry 

 Plate LXXVII, Figs. 3-6 



Elceodendron marylandicum Berry, 1910, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxvii, 

 p. 24, pi. viii, fig. 1. 



Description. Leaf orbicular in general outline, 6.5 cm. to 8.5 cm. in 

 length by 4.7 cm. to 6.2 cm. in greatest width, which is about midway 

 between the apex and the base. Apex evenly rounded, somewhat emargi- 

 nate in one specimen. Base cuneate, slightly decurrent. Margin entire 



