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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA 

 FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE 



Vol. LIII June-July, 1914 No. 214 



THE AFFINITIES AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE LOWER 



EOCENE FLORA OF SOUTHEASTERN 



NORTH AAI ERICA. 



By EDWARD WILBER BERRY. 

 (Read April 25, 1914.) 



Introductiox. 



Three years ago I made a preliminary announcement before this 

 Society^ concerning the fossil floras of southeastern North America. 

 I have, in the interim, completed a monograph of the extensive and 

 especially well preserved plants of the Lower Eocene, and it is some 

 of the results of this detailed study that are given in the present 

 communication. This work has been done under the auspices of the 

 United States Geological Survey, to the director of which organiza- 

 tion I am indebted for permission to publish the following prelim- 

 inary abstract. I also wish to express my great indebtedness to Dr. 

 T. Way land Vaughan, who has had general charge of the Coastal 

 Plain investigations and to whom great credit is due for their com- 

 prehensive character. 



Physical Conditions Indicated by the Flora. 

 There is no part of North America so favorably situated for the 

 study of the floras which preceded the present, extending backward 

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