(95 ) 
Group, 134. p2. 54. 2 2-3. 1892. Hollick, Bull. Geol. 
Soc. Am. 7: 13. 1895. Newb. Fl. Amboy Clays, 116. 
pl. 28. fi 4. 1896. 
A widespread species recorded from the Atane schists, 
Greenland; Dakota Group, Kansas; Raritan, Woodbridge, 
N. J.; and the Cretaceous at Martha’s Vineyard. 
If Newberry has correctly identified Fl. Amboy Clays, #/. 
28, f. 4, as the above species then our fragment undoubtedly 
belongs to the same species. It is the same size as New- 
berry’s leaf; the angle of divergence of the lateral primaries 
is a trifle greater however, and the primary venation is 
stronger, agreeing with Lesquereux’s and Heer’s leaves in 
the latter particular. Both the New Jersey leaves are smaller 
than the Dakota and Greenland specimens and have relatively 
narrower lobes. Unfortunately the basal portion of the Cliff- 
wood leaf is gone, so we do not know whether or not there 
was an extra pair of laterals springing from the base of the 
midrib. This is a feature of all the leaves which Lesquereux 
has referred to this species, but is wanting in Heer’s p/. 38, 
J. 3, and is also wanting on one side in the Raritan leaf. 
The leaf which Newberry describes as a new species (/. ¢. 
114. pl. 28. f. 3), under the name of Arata fatens, should 
in all probability be considered as a form of his A. Groen- 
fandica with deeper sinuses and more divergent lobes, as he 
suggests. Our leaf might also be compared with Cret. & 
Tert. Flora, p/. 5. fz, which Lesquereux considers Sassa- 
Sras acutilobum; it is also much the same form of leaf as 
Sterculia aperta Lesq., but larger; and there is considerable 
resemblance to the leaf which Heer refers to Sassafras Fer- 
rettana Mass. (¥]. Foss. Arct. 7: pl. 97. f. 5). 
Aralia Mattewanensis sp.nov. F/. 43. f.2; pl. 46.7 6. 
A palmately four- or five-lobed leaf; lobes oblanceolate in 
outline (tips missing), with rather narrow sinuses nearly to 
the base; primaries rather stout; a majority of the seconda- 
ries branch at a wide angle and are nearly straight to within 
a short distance of the margin, along which they arch. Leaf 
coriaceous, if we may so judge from the obsolete venation. 
