534 MKSOZOIC FLORAS OF rNITEl) STATES. 



K)SSII, I'l.AMS Klt(»l \V.\H BKKWV>. 



[PI. LXXX, No. 127.] 



The locality designated "The Electric R. R. cut, near Ben\yn," 

 referred on the label to the "base of the Arundel,'" has yielded a speci- 

 men of some plant which, however, is not determinable. 



KtSSIl, I'l.A.MS FKOM THK BK»VI,KY KST.llK. 



[Pi. LXXX, No. 90.] 



Three specimens come from the Bewley estate. The locality is 

 described on the label accompanying them as "Bewley estate, Branch- 

 ville, Md., Patuxentf"" They occur in an arenaceous yellow clay, 

 which is not cleavable, and they are very obscure. One specimen each 

 of Dioonites Buchianus (Ett.) Born.f, Menispermites virgmiensis Font.?, 

 and Sphenopten's latiloba Font.? were found here. None of them can 

 be positively determined, and of course these plants have no value for 

 the determination of the age of the beds which contain them. Indeed, 

 correctly determined, their evidence would be contradictory, as Meni- 

 spermites virginiensis belongs to the Aquia Creek horizon and Dioonites 

 Buchianus to the James River and Rappahannock member. The 

 specimens are all under one label with the number 3838, but the insti- 

 tution to which they lielong is not indicated. 



KdSSII, I'LAM'S FKOM MIIKKIKK. 



[PI. LXXX, No. lOL] 



In January, 1888, Mr. J. B. Hatcher, working under the direction 

 of Prof. O. C. Marsh for the United States Geological Survey, collected 

 in an iron-ore pit known as Coffin's engine mine, 1 mile south of Muir- 

 kirk, Md., 50 mud casts of small cones. He stated that they came 

 from about 12 feet below the surface and were associated with verte- 

 brate bones, of which he o})tained the well-known collection described 

 by Professor Marsh. 



On May 19, 1891, another collection was made for the United States 

 Geological Survey from the same mine, but wholly from the dump, the 



a The bed yielding these plants is in the left bank of the Paint Branch above where the Metzerott road 

 crosses it and near the Bultimore pike just above the l)ridge. The vertical bliifV is 1,5 feet high and consists 

 of paint clays and shales of lively pink and blue coloi-s and well stratified. They seem to be a transgression 

 of the Patapsco. The specimens, however, do not come from these clays, but from the coarser beds that 

 overlie them. — L. F. W. 



