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

7o THE RARITAN FLORA.
50 ° circiter arrectis, late frondosis, lineari-lanceolatis, lobatodentatis
vel basi pinnatifidis vel pinnati-partitis, laciniis ovatoobtusis
apice denticulatis, vel ovato-acuminatis, sub-alternis,
eonfertis, terminalibus longe lineari-laneeolatis, angustissimis,
remote dentatis; nervis venisque strictis, arrectis, simplieibus vel
saeplus furcatis, creberrimis." Debey and Eitings, 1859.
A considerable number of specimens, which Professor Newberry
identified as this species, were found in the Raritan. They
are more complete than the material so identified from elsewhere
and show several minor differences. The lower pinna of the
former are widely separated, opposite or sub-opposite, and
markedly dceurrent as well as unsymmetrical. Higher up, however,
the pinnae become closer until they finally unite, passing
from notched to simple lobes, and these latter are very similar
to the type of the species. The texture is coriaceous and the
venation fine and IargeIy obsolete.
The species is recorded from the Cenomanian of Greenlartd
and Bohemia and the Senonian of Prussia and Bulgaria. The
remains referred to this species by Lesquereux from the much
older horizon at Cape Lisbourne, Alaska, are found to be identical
with Cladophlebis Huttoni (Dunk.) Font.
Occurrence.--Woodbridge, South Amboy.
Collections.--N. Y. Botanical Garden.
ASPLENIUN RARITANENBE Berry.
,4splenium raritanense Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36:246,
pl. 18, _g. z, 19o9.
Descrlptio_.--Frond or pinnae unknown. Pinnules small 1.33
cm. long by IO ram. in greatest breadth, ovate in outline with
narrow somewhat straight-sided base, palmately divided into I
term,inal and 2 pairs of lateral, rounded, not deeply parted, lobes.
Margin entire at base and in sinuses, sharply toothed on the
lobes. Venation flabellate, about 7 veins enter the base of the
pinnule, these soon fork dichotomously, the ultimate divisions
terminating in the marginal teeth.
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