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the expense of the other side. Professor Heer’s leaf would seem to have 
been very much of the same character; so provisionally I unite them. 
Fig. 3 gives nearly the entire outline of the leaf. It will be seen to have 
somewhat the shape of Menispermites obtusiloba Lesq. (Cret. F1., p- 94, Pl. 
XXV, fig. 1; Pl. XXVI, fig. 3), with which Heer compares his plant; but 
our leaves are smaller, are more decidedly unsymmetrical, and have entire 
margins. Supposing Heer’s figure to represent a normal leaf of his species, 
those we find in New Jersey are too closely allied to it to permit us, with- 
out more material, to separate them. 
Locality: Woodbridge. 
Menispermites Warpranus Hollick n. sp. 
Pl. XXIX, figs. 9, 11. 
Leaves about 8" long by 4™ broad at widest part, unsymmetrical in 
shape, the midrib being nearer to the concave side, strongly triple-nerved, 
and with a subsidiary nerve near the convex margin, giving the appear- 
ance of unequal quadruple nervation; margins entire, apex pointed, base 
cuneate. 
In placing these specimens under the above genus I have followed Dr. 
Newberry’s probable disposition of them as indicated by his comparison of 
other similar unsymmetrical leaves with this genus. (See Pl. L of this 
monograph.) 
The specific name is given in honor of Prof. Lester F. Ward, of the 
United States Geological Survey. 
Aerie 
Exact locality not recorded. 
Order LAURACE. 
Laurus pLuronta Heer. 
Bl eV figs: 10.10: 
Laurus puitonia Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., Vol. VI, Abth. I, p. 75, Pl. XIX, figs. 1d, 2, 3, 4; 
Pl. XX, figs. 3a, 4-6; Pl. XXIV, fig. 6b; Pl. XXVIIL, figs. 10, 11; Pl. XLII, 
fig. 4b; Vol. VII, p. 30, Pl. LVILL, fig. 2; Pl. LX, fig. 1a. 
The numerous figures given by Professor Heer of his species are 
so fragmentary that they leave much to desire in reference to the form 
