Maryland Geological Survey 377 



gniart. Fruit of three species of Cephalotaxus, apparently identified 

 coreretly, are described by Kinkelin ^ from the Pliocene deposits of 

 Germany. 



CephalotaxopSis magnifolia Fontaine 

 Plate LX, Fig. 1 



Cephalotaxopsis magnifolia Fontaine, 1890, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 



XV, 1889, p. 236, pi. civ, figs. 4, 5; pi. cv, figs. 1, 2, 4; pi. cvi, figs. 1, 3; 



pi. cvii, figs. 1, 2, 4; pi. cviii, figs. 1, 3, 4. 

 Cephalotaxopsis raviosa Fontaine, 1890, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. xv, 



1889, p. 237, pi. civ, figs. 2, 3; pi. cvi, figs. 2, 4; pi. cvii, fig. 3; pi. cviii, 



fig. 2. 

 Cephalotaxopsis magnifolia Fontaine, 1894, in Diller and Stanton, Bull. 



Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. v, p. 450. 

 ? Cephalotaxopsis sp., Fontaine, 1894, in Diller and Stanton, Bull. Geol. 



Soc, Amer., vol. v, p. 450. 

 Cephalotaxopsis magnifolia Fontaine, 1899, in Ward, 19tli Ann. Rept. U. S. 



Geol. Survey, pt. ii, p. 686, pi. clxii, fig. lb; pi. clxix, figs. 3, 4. 

 ? Cephalotaxopsis ramosa Fontaine, 1906, in Ward, Mon. U. S. Geol. Surv., 



vol. xlviii, 1905, p. 258 (?), pi. Ixviii, figs. 5-7 (?) (non p. 311, pi. 



Ixxiii, fig. 8, wfiich is a species of Oleandra, or p. 547, which is 



Nageiopsis angustifolia) . 

 ? Cephalotaxopsis f rhytidodes Ward, 1906, in Fontaine, Mon. U. S. Geol. 



Surv., vol. xlviii, 1905, p. 258, pi. Ixviii, fig. 8. 

 Cephalotaxopsis magnifolia Berry, 1911, Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., vol. xl, p. 299. 



Description. — Branches very stout, more or less branched, in some 

 instances apparently in whorls through the suppression of the terminal 

 bud and the development of the lateral shoots. Leaves distichous in 

 habit, but probably with a spiral phyllotaxis, strikingly similar to those 

 of the modern species of Cephalotaxus, linear-lanceolate in outline, rather 

 abruptly rounded at the base and tapering gradually upward. Apex 

 with a mucronate point. Length 2 cm. to 6 cm. averaging 4 cm. or 5 cm., 

 and becoming regularly smaller distad and also smaller at the base of 

 the new shoots. Width 3 mm. to 4 mm. Texture coriaceous. The 

 midrib is broad and flat occupying about 1/17 of the diameter of the 



^ Engelh. and Kink., Abh. Senckenb. Naturf. Gesell., Bd. xxix, Hft. iii, 1908, 

 p. 194, pi. xxiii, figs. 9, 13. 



