284 OLDER MESOZOIC FLORAS: OF UNITED STATES. 
folia. The lamina on one side of the midrib is all missing and on the 
other side there is at most only a width of half an inch. This leaf 
does not seem to have been large, as the midrib is only 2 mm. wide. 
Genus DAN.ZOPSIS Heer. 
Danzxorsis ? sp. Fontaine. 
Pl. XXXVIII, Fig. 7. 
Emmons’s collection contains a small fragment of shale, with the 
locality not given, similar to that from Ellington’s, that yields the best- 
preserved fossil plants, and on this there is shown a fragment of what 
must have been a very large pinnule, clearly of the Danzopsis type. 
In his published descriptions he makes no allusion to it. A label, , 
however, evidently attached by him, is marked ‘‘Strangerites, in 
fruit.” 
The fragment is quite imperfect. It shows a portion of a stout 
rachis, which retains on both sides a small portion of the lamina, more 
on the left side than on the right. On each side there are parallel 
rows of small sori, which appear to have stood, originally, one on each 
side of the lateral nerves, as in Danwopsis marantacea (Presl) Heer. 
Of course, only the basal portions of the rows next to the rachis are 
preserved. The rows are arranged as they would be to follow the 
course of the nerves. They make at the rachis an acute angle with it, 
but farther off curve away, so as to make a right angle with it. Fig. 
7 shows what is now to be seen on the specimen. The fragment is 
too imperfect to disclose fully the nature of the plant. It may bea 
fructified form of Pseudodanwopsis nervosa, or of P. reticulata Font. 
[P. plana (Emm.) Font.], both of which, in sterile form, appear to 
occur in the North Carolina Older Mesozoic. If we take the course of 
the sori as indicating the nature of the lateral nerves, they not being 
preserved, the plant is nearer to Danwopsis marantacea than either of 
these. The lateral nerves are in that case closer than in either of the 
species of Pseudodanezopsis and much resemble those of D. marantacea. 
Genus PSEUDODANOPSIS Fontaine. 
PsEUDODANZOPSIS PLANA (Emmons) Fontaine.? 
Emmons gives, on p. 122, fig. 90, of the same work, a description of 
a plant nearly allied to the above, and this he calls Strangerites planus, 
thinking that both forms are cycads. This plant I identified, in Mon. 
U.S. Geol. Survey, Vol. VI, p. 116, from Emmons’s figure, with Pseu- 
dodaneopsis reticulata of the Virginia Older Mesozoic. In Emmons’s 
collection I saw a well-preserved fragment of a pinnule of this plant 
r! 1For synonymy, see supra, p. 238. 
