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Plants which come up into the Ripley from pre-Eutaw horizons 
and therefore legitimately to be considered as probable unknown 
members of the Eutaw flora are: 
Widdringtonites Reichii (Ettings.) Heer 
Moriconia cyclotoxon Debey & Ettings. 
Moriconia americana Berry 
Myrica Brittoniana Berry 
Leguminosites canavalioides Berry 
FLORA OF THE RIPLEY FORMATION 
Determinable fossil plants have been found at thirteen 
different localities that are referred to the Ripley formation. The 
localities in Alabama and Georgia which were described recently* 
furnish but few and on the whole not well-preserved fossil plants. 
They are separated by some 350 miles of coast line of the Ripley 
Sea from the southernmost locality for Ripley plants in Tennessee 
and this in turn is about 100 miles south of the highly fossiliferous 
localities in Henry and Carroll Counties. The other Tennessee 
localities are much like those of Alabama and Georgia as regards 
the character of the remains and their condition of preservation. 
It is at the Perry Place in Henry County and the Cooper Pit in 
Carroll County that most of the information regarding the 
Ripley flora has been collected. 
_Curiously enough each of these localities has yielded a total 
of sixty-six different species, and still more interesting is the fact 
that of this relatively large number there are only fifteen species 
common to both localities, or slightly under 13 per cent. of the 
total number of 117 species represented at the two localities. 
This differences of facies is not only a difference in species but in 
genera. For example at the Perry Place locality there are present 
the genera Dioscorites, Geonomites, Protophyllocladus, Juglans, 
Salix, Liriodendron, Menispermites, Capparis, Acaciaphyllum, 
Caesalpinites, Dalbergia, Pachystima (?), Rhamnus, Cissites and. 
Bumelia, that are not found at the Cooper -Pit, and the latter 
locality has furnished representatives of the genera Selaginella, 
Asplenium, Monheimia, Widdringtonites, Geinitzia, Potamogeton, 
Alismaphyllum, Dryophyllum, Fagus, Celtis, Cedrela, Acer, 
* U.S. Geol. Surv. Professional Paper 112. 1919. 
