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Collected b)' Hibbiii.s ^ Ik-rry at (jiovc Point, Maryland, and 

 Deep Cut, Delaware. 



The remains arc most numerous at the former locality, where 

 many specimens were collected, the largest 8 cm. square. 



They occur in thin layers of clay intercalated between thicker 

 layers of white sand, and from the nature of the deposit and the 

 awkward point of outcrop (beneath an overhanging bluff of clay) 

 it is impossible to get out anything like complete material. 



I have no doubt that with the expenditure of much time and 

 labor, better specimens could be secured, and would have 

 deferred publication were it not for the interest attached to so 

 early a species of palm, and I have no doubt that it is a palm, 

 whatever its generic affinities may subsequently be found to be. 

 It is certainly much more positive material than Lesquereux's 

 from the Dakota group, and the figures but poorly depict the 

 specimens which are particularly difficult to represent. Both of 

 the outcrops where these remains occur are in the upper part of 

 what Darton* called the Magothy formation, and which Wardt 

 and others would include in the Raritan. Dr. \Vm. B. Clark 

 has recently % suggested that they may be correlated with the 

 exposure at Cliffwood, N. J., thus forming transition beds be- 

 tween the Albian and the Cenomanian. The flora of Cliffwood 

 has certainly a Cenomanian facies, and it remains for an exhaust- 

 ive study of the flora of the Magothy to determine positively its 

 exact age according to European standards. 



Passaic, N. J. 



SHORTER NOTES 



Galactia Curtissii sp. nov. — A shrub, 6 dm. high or less, 

 widcl}' branched, densely tomentulose all o\er, the branches terete. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate ; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long; petiole stout, 

 2 cm. long or less ; leaflets oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblong- 

 oblanceolate, broadest at about the middle, thick, light-green, ob- 

 tuse at both ends, or subcordate at the base, finely and strongK- 

 reticulate-veined beneath, 3-6 cm. long, 2 cm. wide or less, the 



* Darton, .Vm. Jour. Sci. III. 45: 407-419. li^pj. 



fWard, Am. Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. 8*: 871. 1889; lii,/. 15 : 372. 1S95. 



X Clark, Am. Jour. Sci. IV. 18 : 435-440. 1904. 



