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

RANALES.
_3._
While this species is reported from such widely separated
points as Marthas Vineyard mid Kansas, it is nowhere abundant,
and is usually poorly preserved, suggesting that the leaves were
readily macerated. It also occurs in unreported eollectiot_s from:
the Magotlay formation in Mar_dand.
Occurrence.--Woodbridge.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
MAGN(ILI'X LONG1PE8 H01Iick,
Plate XIV, Fig. L
Magnolia longipes Hollick, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 2I:6o, p[
_78, f. 3, _894; 1.Y.S. Geol. Surv. Mon. 51y:64, pl. 2_r,.
f. 5, 6, _gW-
Newb., _l. Amboy Clays, 76, pI. 54, f. 2-3, 1896.
Description.--Leaves oblong-ovate in outline, apparently about
I8 cm. in length, by 6 cm_.or 7 era. in breadth, which, was below
the middle. Apex obtusely rounded. Base usually cuneate.
Midrib and petiole very itout, the latter unusually long, reaching
12 cm. or I3 era. in some specimens. Secondaries earnptodrome,
relatively thin and remote, io to i2 pairs, branching from. the'
midrib at an angle of about 450 and soon curving upward to.
join a branch from the secondary next above. This forms a series
of large arches which approximately parallel the margin and
constitute one of the distinctive characters of this species, another
being the long petiole and the oblong, almost strMght-sided,•
shape.
This was a very striking Magnolia and is frequent in the
Raritan at Woodbridge. Fragmentary specimens which have
been correlated with these remains are repo,rted from Long
Island. It is apparently quite different in appearance from any
of the other Cretaceous species of Magnolia, although it suggests
somewhat a gigantic form of Magn*oli_ wo.odbridgensis.
Occurre_we.--Woodbridge.
Collectlons.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY