DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. 117 
von Moletein; but Velenovsky, in his Flora der B6hmischen Kreideforma- 
tion, Part I, Pls. VI and VII, s 
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to) 
calls Aralia formosa, in which the sinuses are deeper, the lobes narrower, 
ives figures of several specimens of what he 
and the marginal teeth smaller than in the type, in these respects approach- 
ing very closely to our specimen; hence, since that is different from any 
other yet obtained from the New Jersey clays and approaches so closely to 
Velenovsky’s figures, I venture to call it provisionally by the same name. 
Locality: South Amboy. 
ARALIA PALMATA Newb. n. sp. 
Pl. XXXIX, figs. 6, 7; Pl. XL, fig. 3. 
Leaves palmate, five-lobed, lobes short, the upper three much larger, 
than the lower, margins entire; secondary nervation either delicate or sunk 
in the parenchyma of the leaf, often invisible. 
In general aspect this species somewhat resembles Aralia Whitneyi 
Lesq. (Flora Auriferous Gravels, p. 20, PI. V, fig. 1), but the leaf is smaller, 
the number of the marginal lobes is less, and in that species they are acute. 
Locality: Woodbridge. 
ARALIA PATENS Newb. n. sp. 
Pl. XXVIII, fig. 3. 
Leaves petioled, 18° to 20 in lateral diameter, palmately three-lobed, 
lobes subequal, lance-linear in outline, subacute, lateral lobes broadly 
divergent, with deep sinuses between them and the middle lobe, margins 
entire. 
The above description is based on the leaf figured and what seems to 
be a lateral lobe of another of still larger size. Both may be but forms of 
A. gronlandica Heer, but the divergence of the lateral lobes is much greater 
and the sinuses are much deeper than in any of the many leaves I have 
supposed to represent Heer’s species in our collections. 
The angle of divergence of the lateral lobes is about as great as in 
Sassafras hastatum, but in that species the lateral lobes are shorter and 
broader, being triangular in outline. 
Locality: Woodbridge. 
