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Order Salicales 



Family Salicaceae 



Salix Bar clay i Anders (?) 



Fig. 10 



There is some uncertainty regarding the identification of this 

 species, the recent leaves of which are often relatively more elongated. 

 The resemblance is close, however, and the leaves are somewhat 

 variable. My recent material was from Kodiak island, and the 

 existing form is a low shrub, typical of northwestern Arctic America, 

 which is an additional reason for doubting the identity of the fossil, 

 since all of its associates are temperate types. 



Salix myrtilloides Linné 



Figs. 1-5 



The leaves of the bog willow are the most abundant fossils in 

 the collection from Point Grey, and are positively determined. Figure 4 

 I regard as a very small leaf of this species since the venation is of 

 the same type as in the larger leaves. In the existing flora this species 

 is a low shrub from 1 to 3 feet tall, growing in bogs from New Bruns- 

 wick to British Columbia and ranging southward to New Jersey 

 along the Atlantic coast, and to Iowa in the Interior. I do not know 

 its southern limit on the Pacific coast, but it is not uncommon in 

 similar situations throughout western Washington. 



PopuUis sp. 



Capsules, unquestionably those of a Populus, are present in the 

 Point Grey deposit. They appear to be most similar to those of the 

 existing Populus acuminata Rydberg, a stream bank cottonwood of 

 the eastern Rocky Mountain foothills from Assiniboia to Colorado. 

 Their specific identity is uncertain, however, and they may represent 

 some other Populus, their chief significance being the proof they ofïer 

 of a forested country. 



Order Ericales 



Family Ericaceae 



Arctostaphylos sp. 



Fig. 6 

 This coriaceous ovate leaf is typical of a number of the larger 

 leafed and erect shrubby species of this genus which is so abundant 



