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LAURUS HOLLICKII Berry 

 Plate LXXI, Fig. 4 



Laurus hollickii Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 79, pi. Hi, 



fig. 4. 

 Laurus hollickii. Berry, 1904, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxi, p. 77, pi. iii, 



fig. 2. 



Laurus hollickii Berry, 1906, Ibidem, vol. xxxiii, p. 178. 

 Laurus hollickii Berry, 1906, Ann. Kept., State Geol. Survey of New Jersey 



for 1905, pp. 138-141. 

 Laurus hollickii Berry, 1910, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxvii, p. 26. 



Description. Leaves of variable size, lanceolate in general outline, the 

 apex and base about equally acuminate. Length ranging from 4 cm. to 

 8 cm. Maximum width, in the middle part of the leaf, ranging from 

 8 mm. to 14 mm. Margins entire, evenly rounded. Texture subcoria- 

 ceous. Midrib stout, straight or curved. Secondaries thin but prominent, 

 distant, usually evenly spaced, about five pairs, diverging from the midrib 

 at acute angles, ascending, evenly curved, dying out by diminishing camp- 

 todrome inosculations along the borders. Tertiaries obsolete. 



This characteristic small lauraceous form is common in the Magothy 

 formation to which it is confined. It ranged from Raritan Bay in New 

 Jersey to the Severn River in Maryland, and suggests numerous modern 

 species of Nectandra as well as various early Eocene species of this genus. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Deep Cut, Delaware ; Grove 

 Point, Cecil County; Round Bay, Little Round Bay, Anne Arundel 

 County, Maryland. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



LAURUS PROTE^EFOLIA Lesquereux 

 Plate LXXV, Fig. 1 



Laurus proteccfolia Lesquereux, 1876, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey 

 Terr., vol. i, 1875, p. 393. 



Laurus protecefolia Lesquereux, 1876, Ann. Kept. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Sur- 

 vey Terr, for 1874, p. 342, pi. v, figs. 1, 2. 



Laurus prote&folia Lesquereux, 1883, Cret. and Tert. Flora, p. 52, pi. iii, 

 figs. 9, 10; pi. xvi, fig. 6. 



Laurus protewfolia Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 

 92. 



Laurus protecefolia Knowlton, 1901, 21st Ann. Kept. U. S. Geol. Survey, pt. 

 vii, p. 318. 



