Vol. 48 No. 2 
BULLETIN 
OF THE 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
Contributions to the Mesozoic flora of the Atlantic coastal 
A plain, XIV.—Tennessee* 
Epwarp W. BERRY 
In the eleventh contribution of this series, published in 1916, 
an account was given of small floras found in the Coffee sand and 
McNairy sand of the west Tennessee coastal plain. Fourteen 
species were recorded from the former and twelve from the latter, 
both florules confessedly too limited to give any idea of their 
general facies or stratigraphic equivalence. During the summer 
of 1919 Dr. Bruce Wade of the Tennessee Geological Survey 
discovered abundant and better preserved material at several 
localities in the Eutaw and Ripley formations. These collections 
have now been identified and furnish for the first time the basis 
for a truer estimate of this youngest known Cretaceous flora of 
the Mississippi embayment region and an opportunity for com- 
parisons with the fossil floras of other areas. 
The time relations of the various members of the Upper Cre- 
taceous section in this area are shown in the accompanying dia- 
gram. The Tuscaloosa formation which has furnished an 
extensive flora recently monographed by the writert comprises 
essentially continental and largely delta deposits contemporaneous 
with the basal estuary and marine beds of the Eutaw formation. 
[The BuLLetin for January (48: 1-54) was issued January 24, 1921.] 
* The last previous contribution of this series appeared in Bull. Torrey Club 
47: 397-406. 1920. 
+ Bull. Torrey Club 43: 283-304. pl. 16. 1916. 
t U.S. Geol. Surv., Professional Paper 112. I919. 
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