This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...of the leaf. Secondaries relatively thin, 10 to 12 subopposite to alternate pairs, remote and somewhat irregularly spaced, diverging from the midrib at wide angles, nearly 90, nearly straight until they reach the marginal region, where they turn abruptly upward and form a wide arch to the secondary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...of the leaf. Secondaries relatively thin, 10 to 12 subopposite to alternate pairs, remote and somewhat irregularly spaced, diverging from the midrib at wide angles, nearly 90, nearly straight until they reach the marginal region, where they turn abruptly upward and form a wide arch to the secondary next above. Tertiaries mostly obsolete. Margins entire. This well-marked species is distinct from previously described forms. It appears to have been not uncommon in the upper part of the embayment area in Wilcox time and suggests by its outline the leaves of Cordia. The venation, however, is typically that of a Ficus. A number of existing species resemble this fossil form, as, for example, Ficus ferruginm and Ficus angusti/olia. It is represented in the lower Claiborne by a closely allied species, Ficus unionensis Berry. Occurrence.--Grenada formation, Grenada, Grenada County, Miss, (collected by E. N. Lowe and E. W. Berry). Ackerman formation, Hurleys, Benton County, Miss. (collected by E. N. Lowe and E. W. Berry). Lagrange formation (in beds of Wilcox age), Puryear, Henry County, Tenn. (collected by E. W. Berry). Collections.--U. S. National Museum. Ficus Puryearensis Elongata Berry, n. var. Plate XXVIII, figure 4. Description.--Leaf oblong-lanceolate, with acuminate tip and narrowly cuneate base. Length generally about 12 centimeters, ranging to 15 centimeters. Maximum width, in middle part of the leaf, generally about 3.5 centimeters or slightly less, ranging to 5.65 centimeters. Margins entire. Texture subcoriaceous. Petiole short and very stout, about 7.5 centimeters in length. Midrib stout, curved, prominent on the lower surface of the leaf. Secondaries thin, diverging from the midrib at wide angles. camptodrome to a considerable...
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