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

I58 THE RARITAN FLORA.
LIRIOD_ND_0PSIS SIMPLEX (Newh.) Newb.
Plate X1X, Fig. 2.
Liriodendron simplex Newb., Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 14:6, pL
'62, f. z, 3, t887 (pars).
White, Am. Jour. Sci., vol. 39: 98, pL 2, f. d, 7, I89O.
Uhler, Trans. Md. Acad. Sci., vol. i:2o 7 (I892) 19OI.
Hollick, Traffs. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. I I : 99, pL G f, 2, 4,
5, 7, 9, I892 ; Ibid., vol. I2 : 235, pl. 5, f. or,2, 4; pl. 7,
f. 2, 1893 ; 55th Ann. Rept. N, Y. State Mus. rso,
19o3.
Pollard, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 13: i8o, 1894.
Liriodendropsis simplex Newb., F1. Amboy Clays, 83, pL I9, f. 2,
3; pL 53, f. 1-4, 7, 1896-
Smith, Geol. Coastal Plain in Aim, 348, 1894. (nomen nudum.)
Hollick, 15_. S. Geol. Surv. Mon. 50:72, pl..23, f. I-7; pL
24, [. I-9; pl. 25; [. I, 4, 5, 7, lO--I2; pl. z6, f. zb,
c, d, 19o7.
Descriptlon_.--Leaves or leaflets ovate to ovate-tanceolate in
outline, with entire margins, emarginate apex and cuneate base,
varying from, 5 cm. to IO cm. in length, and from 3 cm. to 5 em
in breadth. Midrib, stout. Secondaries stout, numerous, camptodrome;
their intervals filled by more or tess parallel, reticulatin_
fine tel_tlaries. The angles of divergence are variable even in
the same leaf, m_d the exigencies of preservation obscure the
finer venation in some specimens, which give them a strikingly
different appearance from others in which the preservation is
more complete.
These leaves are very variable in size and outline. The apex
is often angular at the corners of the leaf-Made and at the sinus,
at other times it is rounded. The sinus may be shallow or
moderately deep. The leaflets are m_ch wider than in the
foUowing species, and the width is usually greatest in the upper
part, although this feature is far from constant.
NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY