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Laurus protecefolia Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, p. 78, pi. 

 xlvii, fig. 9; pi. xlix, fig. 6. 



Laurus protecefolia Berry, 1904, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxi, p. 78, pi. 

 i, fig. 10. 



Laurus protecejolia Berry, 1905, Ibidem, vol. xxxii, p. 46, pi. ii, fig. 3. 



Laurus protecefolia Berry, 1906, Ann. Kept. State Geol. Survey of New Jer- 

 sey for 1905, p. 138. 



Laurus protea'folia Berry, 1910, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxvii, p. 26. 



Description. " Leaves subcoriaceous, broadly lanceolate, gradually nar- 

 rowed from below the middle into a long acumen, more rapidly narrowed 

 to the base; middle nerve narrowly grooved and comparatively narrow; 

 lateral veins oblique, slender, curving to and along the borders, parallel, 

 except the lower pair, which is more oblique and ascends higher."- 

 Lesquereux, 1876. 



This species was described originally from the Dakota group and has a 

 considerable range in the American Upper Cretaceous, being recorded 

 from the Woodbine formation of Texas and not at all rare in the Magothy 

 formation from New Jersey to Maryland. It greatly resembles certain 

 undescribed Wilcox Eocene species of Nectandra and Oreodaplme, as well 

 as various existing tropical American species in these two genera. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County; 

 Eound Bay, Anne Arundel County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



Genus LAUROPHYLLUM Goeppert 

 [Tertiarfl. Java, 1854, p. 45] 



LAUROPHYLLUM ELEGAXS Hollick 

 Plate LXXI, Figs. 1-3 



Laurus plutonia Hollick, 1892, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xi, p. 99, pi. iii, 



figs. 3, 4 (non Heer). 

 Laurus plutonia Hollick, 1893, Ibidem, vol. xi, p. 236, pi. vi, fig. 1 (non 



Heer). 

 Proteoides daphnogenoides Hollick, 1898, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xi, p. 



420, pi. xxxvi, fig. 2 (non Heer). 

 Laurophyllum elegans Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 81, 



pi. xxvii, figs. 1-5. 

 Laurophyllum elegans Berry, 1910, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxvii, pp. 



26, 198. 

 Laurophyllum elegans Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 84, 



p. 53, pi. xii, fig. 6. 



