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DESCRIPTION. 



0. — E. (?) attenuata Newberry. 



In " The Flora of the Amboy Clays," p. Ill, with PL xvi, figs. 2, 3, 5. (1895.) 

 Following is the original description : — ■ 



Leaf 10 cm. to 15 cm. in length, narrowed or rounded at the base, pointed or attenuated at the 

 summit, margin entire ; nervation strongly reticulate. 



Numerous leaves of this species occur, generally in an imperfect state of preservation. The 

 nervation, however, is nearest that of Eucalyptus, or at least of the leaves so designated by Heer from 

 the Atane beds of Greenland. More material will be required before the generic affinities can be positively 

 asserted. 



Locality. — South Amboy. 

 We come to another important Monograph, by Prof. E. W. Berry, viz., " Mary- 

 land Geological Survey, Upper Cretaceous " (1916), for ampler particulars of this 

 reputed species. 



Following is a description : — 



0. Eucalyptus (?) attenuata Newberry. 

 Eucalyptus (?) attenuata Smith, 1894, Geol. Coastal Plain Ala., p. 348 (nomen nudum). 

 Eucalyptus (?) attenuata Ward, 1895, 15th Ann. Kept., U.S. Geol. Survey, p. 371 (nomen nudum). 

 Eucalyptus (?) attenuata Newberry, 1896, Mon. U.S. Geol. Survey, vol. xxvi, p. Ill, pi. xvi, figs. 2, 3 



(non fig. 5). 

 Euctfyptus (?) attenuata Berry, 1906, Ann. Eept. State Geol. Survey of New Jersey for 1905, p. 138. 

 Berry, 1906, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. xxxiii, p. 180. 

 Berry, 1907, ibidem, p. 203. 



Berry, 1911, Bull. 3, Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 195, pi. xxviii, fig. 6. 

 Description. — Leaves lanceolate in outline, 9 cm. to 12 cm. in length by 1-5 cm. to 2 cm. in greatest 

 width, which is in the basal half of the leaf. Margin entire, somewhat undulate in some specimens. Apex 

 narrow and produced, acutely pointed. Base cuneate. Petiole stout, 1 cm. to 2 cm. in length. Midrib 

 stout, especially in its lower part. Secondaries numerous, branching from the midrib at an acute angle, 

 reticulate-camptodrorne. 



This species has little in common with the leaves usually referred to this genus, except its outline, 

 which is also that of a great many unallied genera. It is somewhat suggestive of some of the leaves referred 

 to Laurophyllum, in fact, many possible relationships could be suggested, all of which possess equal elements 

 of uncertainty. 



This species is common in the upper Raritan, and has a recorded range of considerable extent in 

 somewhat later formation. It is recorded from the Magothy formation of New Jersey and Maryland, the 

 Black Creek formation of North Carolina, and the Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama. 



Occurrence. —Magothy formation. Grose Point, Cecil County ; Bound Bay, Anne Arundel County. 

 Collection. — U.S. National Museum. (Op. cit., p. S69.) 



In the following paper Prof. Berry removes this reputed Eucalypt to Ficus : — ■ 

 "U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 112 (1919), Upper Cretaceous Floras of the Eastern 

 Gulf Region in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. E. W. Berry." 

 Ficus.daphnogenoide-s (Heer) Berry, pi. xiii, figs. 6, 7. 



Proteoides daphnogenoides Heer. Phyllites cretacees du Nebraska, p. 17, pi. 4, figs. 9, 10, 1866. 

 Eucalyptus (?) attenuata Newberry. The Flora of the Amboy Clays : New Jersey Geol. Survey 



Bull. 3, p. 122, pi. 12, fig. 4, 1911 ; pi. 16, fig. 5 (not figs. 2, 3), 1896. 

 (p. 80.) 



