866 SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 



Laurophyllum angustifolium Berry, 1906, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 

 xxxiii, p. 178. 



Description. Leaves elongate-lanceolate, very symmetrical in outline, 

 10 cm. to 15 cm. in length by 1.5 cm. to 2 cm. in width, widest above the 

 middle, tapering with almost straight sides to the elongate-acute base. 

 Apex narrowed, subacute. Petiole short and stout. Midrib also stout. 

 Secondaries fine, often obsolete, twelve to fifteen pairs, branching from 

 the midrib at an angle of about 45 and curving upward, camptodrome. 

 Texture subcoriaceous. 



This species was originally described from the middle Raritan of 

 New Jersey, where it is common. It has also been found in the overlying 

 Magothy formation in both New Jersey and Maryland and in the Tusca- 

 loosa formation of Alabama. In the absence of complete and well-marked 

 specimens it is often difficult to differentiate it from contemporaneous 

 species of other genera with similar lanceolate leaves. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY FORMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



Genus SASSAFRAS Nees 

 [Hand. Bot., vol. ii, 1831, p. 418] 



SASSAFRAS ACUTILOBUM Lesquereux 

 Plates LXXII; LXXIII; LXXIV, Figs. 1, 2: LXXV, Fig. 2 



Sassafras acutilobum Lesquereux, 1874, Cret. Fl., p. 79, pi. xiv, figs. 1, 2. 

 Sassafras acutilobum Lesquereux, 1883, Cret. and Tert. Fl., p. 56, pi. v, figs. 



1, 5. 

 Sassafras acutilobum Velenovsky, 1884, Fl. Bohm Kreidef., Thiel iii, p. 2, 



pi. ii, fig. 1. 



Sassafras acutilobum Lesquereux, 1892, Fl. Dakota Group, p. 100. 

 Sassafras acutilobun Hollick, 1893, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. xii, p. 236, 



pi. vii, fig. 1. 

 Sassafras acutilobum Newberry, 1896, Fl. Amboy Clays, p. 87, pi. xxv, figs. 



1-10; pi. xxvi, figs. 2-6. 

 Sassafras acutilobum Fri6 and Bayer, 1901, Archiv. Naturw. Landes, 



Bohm. Bd. xi, Nr. ii, p. 129, tf. 93. 



Sassafras acutilobum Kurtz, 1902, Revista Mus. La Plata, vol. x, p. 53. 

 Sassafras acutilobum Berry, 1902, Bot. Gazette, vol. xxxiv, p. 438. 

 Sassafras acutilobum Berry, 1903, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. iii, pi. 81, 



pi. xlv, figs. 1, 2. 



