298 OLDER MESOZOIC FLORAS OF UNITED STATES. 
PopOZAMITES ? CAROLINENSIS Fontaine n. sp. 
Pl. XLII, Fig. 4. 
One of the specimens in Emmons’s collection seems to be a Podo- 
zamites of a species different from any hitherto described. It is near- 
est to P. tenuistriatus, but has leaflets that are decidedly larger than any 
shown by that plant, besides differing in other respects. I hesitate to 
regard it as a new species, on account of the small amount of material, 
only one specimen being seen. This specimen is the terminal portion 
ofa leaf. It is well preserved. The lowest leaflets seen go off at an 
angle of about 40°. Higher up they are more obliquely placed. The 
terminal ones lie in the prolongation of the midrib. The leaflets are 
long in proportion to their width. None of them are entire. The 
longest fragment seen is 5 cm. long, indicating an original length of 
about 7cm. At their bases they narrow gradually, so that the basal 
part is elliptical in shape. They are attached to the side of the mid- 
rib by a very short, thickened, much narrowed portion of the leaflet. 
In the leaflets lower down on the midrib this thickened portion may 
appear as a petiole, and the leaflets may be in part attached to the 
upper face of the midrib and be alternate. In this terminal portion of 
the leaf they are opposite. They are linear in form, varying little in 
width from the average, which is 3cm. The nerves are distinct, as the 
texture of the leaflets was thin. They resemble those of P. tenwistre- 
atus, being fine and closely placed. Possibly this is a large variety 
of P. tenuistriatus, but the dimensions of the leaflets at the end of the 
leaf, as seen here, indicate a much larger plant. The general aspect 
of the specimen, and especially of the terminal leaflets, reminds one 
strongly of Déioonites Buchianus of the Lower Cretaceous, but the 
basal portions and mode of attachment of the leaflets are different. 
Genus OTOZAMITES Friedrich Braun. 
OTOZAMITES CAROLINENSIS Fontaine. 
Pl. XLII, Figs. 5, 6. 
1857. Albertia latifolia Emm. non Schimp.:1 American Geology, Pt. VI, p. 126, fig. 95. 
1883. Otozamites carolinenesis Font.: Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, Mon. U. S. 
Geol. Survey, Vol. VI, pp. 117, 118, pl. lii, fig. 6. 
Emmons has given, in Pt. VI, pp. 126, 127, fig. 95, a description of 
a fossil which he names Albertia latifolia. The original of this is in 
his collection at Williams College, and besides that, some detached 
leaflets and a second imprint showing several attached leaflets. The 
original of Emmons’s fig. 95 is preserved on an argillaceous sandstone, 
which is not fitted to retain the finer details, and, in addition, the 
1See letter of M. René Zeiller to Jules Marcou, cited above (p. 270). 
