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

URTICALES.
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Occurrence.--Woodbridge.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Family
MORACE2E.
Genus FICUS Linn6.
(Sp. PI., _fS3,p. Io59.)
FICUS
MYlilC0IDES Hollick.
Ficus myicoides Hollick in Newb., Fl. Amboy Clays, 71, pl. 32,
f. ig; pl. 4I, [. _g, 9, 1896; U. S. Geol. Surv., Mon.
5°: 57, pl. zI, f. 3, 9, 19o7 (?) (non-Ward, 19o6 ).
Description.--Leaves narrowly lanceo,late in outline, with the
maximum dimensions of 2 cm. its width by _o cm. in length, but
sometimes considerably smMler. Margin entire. Apex bluntly
rounded..i_fidrib mediumly stout, straight. Secondaries numerous,
about 2 ram. apart, straigllt and parallel, diverging from
the midrib at angles of about 45 °, or slightly more, branching to
form polygonal areoles near the margin.
This species is not conclusively allied to F_cus, nor is it especially
well known since the specimens are all fragmentary. It is
aIso recorded by Hollick from Glen Cove, Long Island, and Gay
Head, Marthas Vineyard, and by Fontaine and Ward from the
Patapsco formation of Maryland. It is probable, however, that
some of the remains that have been referred to this species are
not related to the type material. This is especially true of the
Long Island and Marthas Vineyard leaves which are larger and
which suggest to the writer some of the many species of Magnolia,
identified by Dr. Hollick in the insular deposits. The supposed
Patap,sco occurrence is based on leaf fraganents of ocapindopsis.
Occu_'rence.--Milltown.
Collectio_s.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY