FOSSIL PLANTS FROM KUKAK BAY 



BY FRANK HALL KNOWLTON 



SOMETIME toward the close of 1900 I received through 

 Dr. W. H. Dall, of the U. S. Geological Survey, several 

 small boxes of fossil plants that had been obtained by the 

 Harriman Expedition to Alaska. They were collected, I 

 am informed, by Mr. DeA. Saunders, in Kukak Bay, on the 

 Alaska Peninsula, a little north of west from Kadiak Island. 

 The only information available regarding their occurrence 

 is contained in the following brief note sent me by Mr. 

 Palache : " There was no geologist with the party that 

 found them, and the data concerning them are extremely 

 meager. I have no section showing relations, nor do I 

 know what the attitude of the strata was. With them were 

 coarse conglomerates and grits, said to be interbedded, but 

 I do not know whether above or below ; also andesitic 

 lavas which were, I believe, overlying the plant beds." 1 



SYSTEMATIC ENUMERATION OF SPECIES 

 Family EQUISETACE. 



Equisetum globulosum Lesq. 



Equisetum globulosum LESQ., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. v, p. 444, pi. VI, 

 figs, i, 2, 1882. 



The collection contains two fragmentary examples that seem to be- 



'In litt., Jan. 22, 1902. See also page 28. 



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