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

72 THE RARITAN FLORA.
mains referred to the latter species by Velenovsky. 1 The New
Jersey species is clearly not a Gleichenia, however, since the tiny
fragment preserved is part of a fruiting plant, and while the
preservation is too poor for discerning the details, it is sufficiently
Fig. 5.--Asple_ium jerseyensis sp. nov. Milltown, N. J.
good to show the remains of oblong-Ianceola_e sori on the lateral
veins of the pinnules exactly as in many species of Aspleniun_, to
which.genus it is consequently referred. It differs from any
previously described Cretaceous forms, although a similar but
larger Asplenium in fruit has been collected by the writer from
the Magothy formatidn at Grove Point, Maryland.
Oceurrence._Milltown.
Collection.--U. &. National Museum.
Family
OPHIOGLOSSACE2E.
Genus OPHIOGLOSSUM Linn6.
(Sp. PI., _753, p. io62.)
OPI_IOGLOSSU_I GRANULATUM Heer,
OPhiogIossum gramdatum tteer, F1. Foss. Arct., vol. 7 : 8, pl. 57,
f. 8, 9; I883; Newb., FI. Amboy Clays, 43, pl. 9, f. zI-I3,
1896.
_Velen. Die Fame der B6hm, Kreideform, p. 7, pL iii, figs. 8-1o, 1888.
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