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Kvaček, Z. ; Hably, L.: Notes on the Egerian stratotype flora at Eger (Wind Brickyard), Hungary, Upper Oligocene
specimens ANDREÁNSZKY at first suggested Carya sp., but later he changed it lor Juglans. In view of the occurrence of fruits (sub Juglans in NAGY & PALFALVY 1963, pi. 6, f. 7,8) and pollen grains the Juglandaceae family is surely represented at EW and for the leaflets described above Carya would be a most probable match. ? THEACEAE "Viburnum" atlanticum ETTINGSHAUSEN, 1868 (Plate VIII: 6) A single leaf fragment (BP 54.1415.1) identified as Banisteria cf. sinemariensis DC. from EWU shows a portion of oval slightly crenulate leaf with glangular (?) teeth and fine semicraspedodromous brochydodromous secondary venation. The tertiary veins are very fine, forked, and directed very obliquely to the secondaries. Identical leaf forms occur in Oligocène and Lower Miocene strata in North Bohemia (BUZEK 1971) and according to the cuticular structure (pers. observation) they correspond with Theaceae, namely with Eurya THUNB. "Arbutus" praeunedo ANDREÁNSZKY, 1962 (Plate IX: 1) The drawing of the holotype (ANDREÁNSZKY 1962, textf. 10, BP 83.266.1-3291) from EWM is partly misleading because the black imprint shows widely spaced secondaries that loop (semicraspedodromous venation). The blunt but fine teeth and the leaf shape recall Platanus neptuni but tips of the teeth seem to be thickened (? glandular) and thus rather suggest Theaceae. Without anatomical evidence this interpretation remains a mere guess. The paratypus (MM 64.217.1) also from EWM is slightly different in forked secondaries and more or less craspedodromous venation. The teeth are triangular and sharp. It recalls an aberrant Ulmus pyramidalis GOEPP. SALICACEAE Salix vei Populus sp. (Plate IX: 2) Linear leaves (up to 1.5 cm wide and over 10 cm long) with salicoid venation, but rather widely spaced secondaries looping well within the lamina with additional small meshes towards the margin and side veins entering widely spaced glandular teeth, have been rarely met, mainly in EWL (MM 64.103.1, 64.102.1, 64.210.1 - orig. ANDREÁNSZKY 1966, textf. 57, sub Salix lavateri HEER) 66.35.1 - orig. ANDREÁNSZKY 1966, textf. 58, and some more), rarely in EWM (MM 64.61.1, 64.109.1, 64.107.1) and in EWU (BP 67.249.1 - orig. ANDREÁNSZKY 1966, textf. 21. sub Lomatites auqensis SAP.). They do recall aberrant willow leaves and were mostly assigned to this genus by ANDREÁNSZKY (1966). They do not exactly correspond with the species they were referred to. We noticed in some specimens indistinct basal veins (see Plate IX: 2) that suggest rather a narrow-leaved Populus. Dr. ZHIUN (Leningrad) called our attention to a species of poplar occurring in the Oligocène of Kazachstan, which very well corresponds with the above-described material. Similar leaf forms were described by HEER (1859, pi. 131, f. 11-13) as Carya heerii (Ett.) Heer from the Swiss and German Molasse. ROSACEAE Rosa lignitum HEER, 1869 (Plate IX: 3) A simple ovate leaflet without its base, about 2 cm wide with shallowly crenulate margin and fine craspedodromous venation, dense secondaries arching towards the margin (MM s.n.), from EWU can be identified with Rosa lignitum, a common accessory element of Oligocène and Lower Miocene floras (see MAI & WALTHER 1978).
