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Andromeda novce-c&sarece Berry, 1906, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiii, 



p. 181. 

 Andromeda novce-ccesarece Berry, 1907, Ibidem, vol. xxxiv, p. 29, vol. xxxvii, 



p. 29. 

 Andromeda novw-ccesarece Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, 



pi. xx, fig. 7. 



Andromeda novce-ccesarece Berry, 1912, Ibidem, vol. xxxix, p. 405. 

 Andromeda novce-ccesarece Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 



84, pp. 58, 120, pi. xiv, figs. 5, 6 ; pi. xxiv, fig. 1. 



Description. Leaves small, thick, and entire, with stout petioles and 

 midribs and obscure secondary venation which is immersed in the thick 

 lamina. Length 2.5 cm. to 5 cm. Width varying from 0.9 cm. to 1.3 cm. 

 Venation, where visible, showing numerous parallel, camptodrome, rela- 

 tively long and thin secondaries which branch from the midrib at acute 

 angles. While the majority of these leaves are equally acuminate at both 

 ends, there is considerable variation in this respect, and a well-marked 

 tendency is shown in a considerable number of specimens which are rela- 

 tively broader, especially in the upper half, toward an obtusely rounded 

 apex, the termination of the midrib showing as a small mucronate point. 

 The base in these forms gradually narrows to the stout petiole. The 

 variations in outline of this species are well shown in the figures repro- 

 duced in Professor Newberry's monograph, the specimens collected from 

 the South Atlantic Coastal Plain having an obtusely rounded apex seem- 

 ingly more often than those from New Jersey. 



In the Earitan formation this species is only known with certainty 

 from the uppermost beds at South Amboy, New Jersey. It becomes more 

 abundant in the overlying Magothy formation, occurring from New Jersey 

 to Maryland in beds of this age. Farther south it is found as one of the 

 typical fossils of the Black Creek formation in North Carolina, being a 

 prominent but never abundant element in the dark lignitic laminated clays 

 of the upper beds associated with Araucaria, Cunninghamites, Pistia, etc., 

 and a marine fauna. 



It occurs in the Middendorf beds of South Carolina and is also present 

 in Georgia and the Woodbine formation of northeastern Texas. It has not 

 been observed to be common in the Tuscaloosa formation, being only 



