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

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more abundant in the overlying Magothy formation and is present
from New Jersey and Maryland, as well as from the Bladen
formation of North Carolina, the Middendorf formation of
South Carolina and the Tusealoosa formation of Alabama• It
does not appear to be especially close to either Andromeda
Snozeii Lesq. or Andromeda linifolia Lesq. of the Dakota Group
with which Dr, l-tollick has instituted comparisons. Material
from North Carolina definitely proves its Erieaceous affinities.
Occurrence.--South Amboy.
Collections.--U. S. NationallMuseum, N. Y. Botanical Garden.
ANDROMEDA GRANDIFOLIA Berry.
Andromeda !atifolia Newb., F1. Amboy Clays, 12o, pl. 33, f. 6-8,
•Io (non f. 9) ; pl. 34, f. 6-H; pl. 36, f. xo, 1896 (non
Wright).
Smith, Geol. Coastal Plain in Ala., 348, 1894 (nomen
nudum).
Holllck, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden, vol. 3:416, pl. 79, f. 3,
19o4; Mon. U. S. Geol. S,nrv., voi. 50: IOO,pl. 3.9, f. I,
19o7.
Andromeda grandlfolia Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 34:2o4,
pl. rS, f. 3, 19°7.
Description.--Leaves thick and corlaceous, varying considerably
in size and shape. From 4 cm. to 20 cm. in Ien_h by 1.5
cm. to 7 cm. in width, ovate-lanceolate in outline, with an entire,
usually somewhat undulate or unsymmetrical margin. Apex obtusely
pointed or sometimes rounded. Base somewhat wedgeshaped.
Midrib and petiole very stout. Secondaries relatively
few, 6 to 8 eight pairs, stout and flexuous, branching from the
midrib at an acute angle and sweeping upward in long curves
and eventually inosculating to complete the 'strictly camptodrome
venation.
T.his species occt_rs throughout the lower R_ritan in N_ewJersey.and
at somewhat .higher horizons in the Cretaceous of the
Southern .States. : It is larger, relatively broader and less regular
than'And_'omeda PcMatoriiHeer, the two leaves figured on plate
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