* 
Contributions to the Mesozoic flora of the Atlantic coastal plain— 
Vill. Texas* 
Epwarp W. BERRY 
(WITH PLATES 30-32) 
The following annotated list of fossil plants is based on a small 
collection from the Woodbine formation, made at Arthurs Bluff 
on the Red River in Lamar County, Texas, by Doctors T. W. 
Stanton and L. W. Stephenson in 1911 for the U. S. Geological 
Survey. 
The presence of fossil plants in the Cretaceous strata of Lamar 
‘County has been known for half a century as is shown by a letter 
from Dr. B. F. Shumard, dated Oct. 2, 1860, read before the 
Academy of Science of St. Louis at its session of Nov. 5, 1860, and 
quoted on page 140 of the printed Transactions.t Dr. B. F. 
Shumard, at that time state geologist of Texas, states that his 
brother Dr. G. G. Shumard discovered numerous dicotyledonous 
leaves resembling the modern leaves of Salix, Ilex, Laurus, etc., 
in the Cretaceous yellowish sandstones of Lamar County near 
the Red River. These were undoubtedly from the locality now 
known as Arthurs Bluff, which has furnished the subsequent 
collections. Dr. Shumard further states that these plants were 
sent to Leo Lesquereux for determination, but if sent they were 
apparently lost in transit.t 
en R. T. Hill took up the study of the Texas Cretaceous, 
new collections were made between 1880 and 1885 at Arthurs 
Bluff and at Denison, the latter a locality originally discovered by 
Dr. Shumard. These collections were, according to Hill, sent to 
the U.S. National Museum and lost in storage. Finally in Hill’s 
sreat work on the Texas Cretaceous§ Dr. F. H. Knowlton furnished 
“report on collections of fossil plants from the Woodbine formation 
* Published with the permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey. 
t Trans, Acad. Sci. St. Louis 2: 140. 1868. 
+ Lesquereux, Cretaceous Flora, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 6: 11. 1874. 
U. he o, Geography and Geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Ann. Rep. 
» Seol. Sury, 217: 314-318. pl. 30. 
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