Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...

to8 THE RARITAN FLORA.
MYRICA
m_RB'ANENSlS Hollick.
Plate X, Fig. 4.
M_rica raritaneasis Hollick in Newb., F1. Amboy Clays, 65, pl.
42,/. 34, 1896-
?Phyllites obscura Hollick in Newb., Ibid., 131, pL 42,• f. 33,
I896.
Descrlption.--Leaves small, ovate in outline, about 3 era. long
b)? z.3 em. wide, broadest near the middle and tapering equally
in both directions. Apex presttmably acute. Base cuneate, acute.
Margin entire in the lower half of the leaf, coarsely dentate
above. Venation obscure, only a few pairs of thin secondaries
being visible.
The form described by Hollick as Pl*fl[ites obsc_rc_ is probably
an abnormal leaf of this species, and is here included under it
with a query. Species based on single specimens from unknown
localities and with affinities undeterminable are of little value
unless they serve as horizon markers, which this PhylliWs does
not, so that it is desirable from every point of view to make the .
foregoing disposition of it,
Occurrence.--Locality unknown.
Collections,_N. Y.-Botanical Garden.
Genus COMPTONIA Banks.
(Gaertn. Fr. & Sem., vol. II, I79r, p. 58, pl. xe.)
CO.MPTONIA MlClROP_IYLLA (Heer)
Berry.
Rhus mlcrophylla Heer, FI. Foss. Arct., vol. 3, ab. 2 : 117, pl. 32,
/. 18, I874.
Myrica (Con_ptmda) paq'vifolia Heer. Ibid., vol. 7 : 77, pl. 71. f.
12, I883.
Myrica (Comptonia) par',nda Heer, Ibid., 20, pl. 55, [. 1-3.
Newb., FI. Amboy Clays, 63, pL±9,f- d, 1896.
Comptonla microphylla Berry, Amen Nat., vol. 4o: 5o8, pl. 4, f-
1,3,4,19o6.
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