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fossils coiilaincd in ciillcct ion No. •"> iiulicatc liiat llic Foriiial imi coiilaiiiini; IIhmii is 

 not oldiT llian liic A(|uia ('i-cci< slap' of tlic Ijowcr l\)toniac. Tlicv may he as yoiiiij; 

 as tlif Alaiic strata. 



.Ml the other eonections were sent to Professor Fontaine mueh earhev 

 and liis detenniiiatioiis are emhofUed in the deseriptions of the species 

 given below. 



The accompanying sketcli map (PI. LXR') of the genei'al region in 

 Califoi'iiia where collections of Shasta ])lants were made will assist the 

 reader in locating the beds geographically in that Slate. Poi' those in 

 Oregon, see PI. \ . 



NOTES ON SOME p-QSSIL PLANTS FROM THE SHASTA GROUP OF CALIFORNIA 



AND OREGON. 



By William M. Font.vixe. 



The object of this paper is chiefly to give the i-esult of the examhiation 

 of three parcels of fossil plants collected from the Shasta grouj) of California 

 and Oregon. 



One of the parcels contains fossils collected by Messrs. Diller, Stanton, 

 and Storrs, in 1893 and 1894, from the following localities in California. 

 The numbering is my own, and is intended simply to make reference easy. 



Localify No. /." — One and one-half miles northeast of Horsetown, Shasta 

 County, Cai. Typical Horsetown beds. Collected by T. W. Stanton, 189.3. 



Locality No. J. — North Fork of Cottonwood Creek, below the mouth of Fa(;;le 

 Creek, Shasta County, Cal. Horsetown beds. Collected by T. W. Stanton, 189.3. 



Local iti/ No. 3. — Eagle Creek, near Ono, Sliasta County, Cal. Lower part of 

 Horsetown beds. Collected by T. W. Stanton, 1893. 



Locality No. 4- — Byron Gulch, near Ono, Shasta County, Cal. Horsetown beds, 

 slightly higiier than No. 5. Collected by T. W. Stanton, 1893. 



Locality No. 5. — Byron Gulch, near Ono, vShasta County, Cal. Th(> lowest 

 fossiliferons horizon of the section. Base of the Horsetown beds. Collerted l)y 

 T. W. Stanton, 1893. 



LordlHi/ No. 6. — ^Aldersons Gulch, 2 miles south of Ono, Shasta County, Cal. 

 Lower part of Horsetown beds. Collected by T. W. Stanton, 1893. 



Localltij No. 7. — Cold Fork of Cottonwood Creek, Tehama County, Cal. Tpper 

 Knoxville (Aucella) beds. Collected by T. W. Stanton, 1893. 



Locality No. 8. — Folder Creek, 2i miles below Lowry, Tehama Ciniiity, Cal. 

 Base of the Chico grouj). Collected by T. W. Stanton, 1S93. 



Localltn No. 9. — Elder Creek section, .3; miles above l^owry, Tehama County, 

 Cal. Knoxville beds. Collected by Stanton and Storrs, 1893. 



'I Tlif Muriilicis (iM till' limp (Tl. LXIV) corifspond to those crivcn in the text. 



