98 FLORA OF SOUTHERN NEW YORK AND .NEW ENGLAND. 



Aralia patens Newberry? 



PL XXXVIII, fig. 3. 



Aralia patens Newb., Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 26 (Fl. Amboy Clays), 1895 (1896), p. 117, pi. 28, fig. 3. 

 Hollick, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 21, 1894, p. 54, pi. 174, fig. 4. 



In the Flora of the Amboy Clays (loc. cit.) Newberry describes and figures a 

 broadly divergent type of Aralia under this name, with which our fragment may be 

 provisionally identified. 



Locality: Glen Cove, Long Island. Collected by Arthur Hollick. Specimen in 

 Mus. New York Bot. Gard. 



Aralia palmata Newberry. 



PI. XXXVIII, fig. 4. 



Aralia palmata Newb., Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 26 (Fl. Amboy Clays), 1895 (1896), p. 117, pi. 39, figs. 



6, 7; pi. 40, fig. 3; Berry, Bull. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 3, 1903, p. 93, pi. 44; Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 



vol. 31, 1904, p. 79, pi. 4, fig. 12. 

 Aralia rotundiloba Newb.?, Hollick, Annals New York Acad. Sci., vol. 11, 1898, p. 421, pi. 38, fig. 2. 

 Aralia sp. Hollick, Fifty-fifth Ann. Kept. New York State Mus., 1901 (1903), p. r50. 



This specimen was originally referred by me provisionally to Aralia rotundiloba 

 Newb. (loc. cit.), but I am now convinced that it belongs to A. palmata Newb., and 

 that it is identical with his fig. 3, pi. 40 (loc. cit.), which represents a specimen from 

 the Amboy clays of New Jersey. Specimens apparently referable to the species 

 have also been found in the clay marls at Cliffwood, N. J. 



Locality: Tottenville, Staten Island. Collected by Arthur Hollick. Specimen 

 in Mus. Staten Island Assn. Arts and Sci. 



Aralia gronlandica Heer. 



PL XXXVII, figs. 3-6. 



Aralia gronlandica Heer, Fl. Foss. Arct., vol. 6 (abth. 2), 1882, p. 84, pi. 38, fig. 3; pi. 39,fig.l; pi. 46, figs. 16, 17; 

 Hollick, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 7, 1895, p. 13; Newberry, Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 26 (Fl. Amboy 

 Clays), 1895 (1896), p. 116, pi. 28, fig. 4; Berry, Bull. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 3, 1903, p. 94, pi. 45, fig. 4. 



The specimens represented by our figs. 4, 5 are apparently small 3-lobed forms 

 of the species, which is the prevailing form in this region, agreeing with those figured 

 by Newberry and Berry from the Cretaceous of New Jersey (loc. cit.). Fig. 6 is 

 probably a portion of a lateral lobe with a small sublobe such as frequently occurs in 

 the leaves of this species, especially in those so referred by Lesquereux from the 

 Dakota group." In many respects our fig. 5 bears a striking resemblance to Sterculia 

 Krejcii Vel. 6 and to S. aperta Lesq. c , except that in the latter species the lobes are 

 more divergent. The great difference in size between our figs. 4 and 5 might seem to 

 preclude the probability of their specific identity, but this feature seems to obtain in 

 other species from the region, notably in the case of Aralia polymorpha Newb./* and 



a Mon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 17 (FL Dak. Gr.), 1892, p. 134, pi. 54, figs. 1-3. 



h Fl. Bohm Kreideform., pt. 2, 1883, p. 22 (47) , pi. 5 (13) , fig. 1. 



cCret. and Tert. Fl., 1883, p. 82, pi. 10, figs. 2, 3. 



dMon. U. S. Geol. Survey, vol. 26 (Fl. Amboy Clays), 1895 (1896), pi. 39, figs. 1-5. 



