with Descriptions of y,/r Sj '//'/,, ~ 



18G3, in the report on the fossils collected by the 1' oum Ian- 

 Commission. 



As regards the strata containing the plants and coal of B 

 lingham Bay, further observations and collections musl In- 

 made there before the question can be said to be definitely 

 settled. Mr. Gabb, palaeontologist to the California . 

 survey, who has recently visited Bellingham Bay, has been led 

 by the molluscous fossils obtained there' to consider all the 

 coal-bearing series of that district as Cretaceous. If this b< 

 there has been some error in the labelling of Bpi which 



have come into my hands professedly from " Bellingham Bay." 

 Some of them are unquestionably Miocene, for they inch 

 Glyptostrobus Europmus, Tar,, ilium, occidentals, and 

 plants found in the Miocene strata of Dacotah and Montana. 

 The truth probably is that both formations are represented al 

 or near Bellingham Bay. The coal of Coose Bay and the 

 fossiliferous strata at Astoria are known to be Mioci are 



also the plant-bearing beds at Birch Bay and Buzzard's Inlet, 

 and I have lately received a beautiful collection of Miocene 

 plants from a locality not far distant in the interior. 



From Orcas Island, which occupies an intermedial | ion 

 between Bellingham Bay and Vancouver's feland, a collection 

 of plants was made by Mr. George Gibbfl of the Boundary 

 Commission, in which the species are, with perhaps i 

 tion, different from those obtained from the other two lo 

 mentioned. These include ferns, palmsand broad-leaved pin 

 described in the report to which I have alluded, 

 are referred to the Cretaceous period. 



Combining the contributions thus made toour : 

 the Cretaceous flora, and referring to this lorn. 

 now know to belong there, we have the follow 

 and species : 



N. A. C: us Plants now or kith 



Populus rhomboidea, I- 



