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embrace a wide diversity of leaf forms and these could be still further amplified by 

 reference to numerous other authorities. As thus recognized the species has a wide 

 geographical distribution, which includes Europe, Greenland, and the eastern and 

 western United States. 



Locality: Black Rock Point, Block Island, PL XXVII, figs. 9, 10. Collected 

 by Arthur Hollick. Specimens in Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



Glen Cove, Long Island, PL XXVIII, fig. 1. Collected by David White. 

 Specimen in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Sea Cliff, Long Island, PL XXVIII, fig. 2. Collected by Gilbert Van Ingen. 

 Specimen in Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



Laurus angusta Heer. 



PI. XXVII, figs. 11, 12. 



Laurus angusta Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 6 (abth. 2), 1882, p. 76, pi. 20, figs, lb, 7; pi. 43, fig. lc; Hies, Sch. 

 Mines Quart., vol. 15, 1894, p. 354; Hollick, Bull. New York Bot. Gard, vol. 3, 1904, p. 408, pi. 70, figs. 

 10, 11. 



Some of the forms of this species are hardly to be distinguished from the narrow 

 forms of L. plutonia; but if the species is to be recognized there is no doubt that 

 our specimens may v be so referred. 



Locality: Little Neck (Northport Harbor) , Long Island. Collected by Heinrich 

 Bies. Specimen in Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



Laurophyllum elegans n. sp. 

 PI. XXVII, figs. 1-5. 



Laurus plutonia Heer. Hollick, Trans. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1892, p. 99, pi. 3, figs. 3, 4; ibid., vol. 12, 



1893, p. 236, pi. 6, fig. 1. 

 Proteoides daphnogenoides Heer: Hollick, Annals New York Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1898, p. 420, pi. 36, fig. 2. 



Leaves linear-elliptical in outline, flexuous, 1.3 decimeters long by 2-2.4 centimeters wide at about the 

 middle, entire, terminating above in a curved, attenuated, pointed apex and below in a long, narrow, pointed 

 base; secondary nerves fine and numerous, the lower ones forming acute angles with the midrib, becoming 

 more divergent above, curving and anastomosing near the margin; tertiary nervation mostly at right angles 

 to the secondary nerves throughout. 



The first of these leaves that were found were thought to be forms of Laurus 

 plutonia Heer, but subsequent discoveries indicated beyond a doubt that they 

 represented a distinct and well-defined species,, closely similar to Laurophyllum 

 angustifolium Newb., a and differing but little, except in size, from L^aurus angusta 

 Heer. b 



Locality: Tottenville, Staten Island, PL XXVII, figs. 1, 3-5. Collected by 

 Arthur Hollick. Specimens in Mus. Staten Island Assn. Arts and Sci. 



Glen Cove, Long Island, PI. XXVII, fig. 2. Collected by Arthur Hollick. 

 Specimen in Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



oMon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 26 (FL Amboy Clays), 1895 (1896), p. 86, pi. 17, figs. 10, 11. 

 & Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 6 (abth. 2), 1882, p. 76, pi. 20, figs, lb, 7; pi. 43, fig. lc. 



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