892 SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 



Myrsine elongata Hollick, 1907, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 1, p. 102, pi. 



viii, fig. Ib; pi. xxxix, figs. 13, 14. 

 Myrsine elongata Newberry, 1896, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, p. 122, 



pi. xxii, figs. 1-3. 



Myrsine gaudini Berry, 1909, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxvi, p. 262. 

 Myrsine gaudini Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 210, pi. 



xxiv, figs. 3, 4. 



Myrsine gaudini Berry, 1911, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxviii, p. 408. 

 Myrsine gaudini Berry, 1914, Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, No. 84, p. 61, 



pi. xiv, fig. 9. 



Description. Leaves oblanceolate or elongate-obovate in outline, 5.5 

 cm. to 7 cm. in length by 1.9 cm. to 2.5 cm. in greatest width. Margins 

 entire. Apex obtusely rounded. Base somewhat elongated, narrowly 

 cuneate. Petiole present, stout. Midrib stout below, rapidly diminish- 

 ing in caliber. Secondaries numerous, eight to ten pairs, alternate, branch- 

 ing from the midrib at angles of from 40 to 45, camptodrome. When 

 tertiary venation is distinctly preserved the venation is more typical of 

 the genus than when only the secondaries are partially visible. 



This species is well distributed in the Earitan formation and has been 

 recorded also from Long Island and Staten Island. The identification of 

 Myrsinites ? gaudini Lesquereux with the eastern forms with which it is 

 obviously identical extends the range eastward from Kansas to Long 

 Island. It may be readily distinguished from the other species of Myrsine 

 by its relatively narrow elongated form. It is present in the Black Creek 

 formation of North Carolina, the Middendorf beds of South Carolina, and 

 the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama. 



Occurrence. MAGOTHY .FOKMATION. Grove Point, Cecil County. 



Collection. Maryland Geological Survey. 



Order EBENALES 

 Family SAPOTACEAE 



Genus SAPOTACITES Ettingshausen 



[Abh. k. K. geol. Reichs., Bd. ii, 1853, p. 61] 



SAPOTACITES KNOWLTONI Berry 



Plate XC, Fig. 2 

 Sapotacites sp. Lesquereux, 1892, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. xvii, p. 114, 



pi. Ixv, fig. 3. 



Sapotacites Knowltoni Berry, 1906, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiii, p. 

 181, pi. viii. fig. 1. 



