534 MESOZOIC FLORAS OF UNITED STATES. 



FOSSIL PLANTS FROM NEAR BEBWVN. 



[PI. LXXX, No. 127.] 



The locality designated "The Electric R. R. cut, near Berwyn," 

 referred on the label to the "base of the Arundel," has yielded a speci- 

 men of some plant which, however, is not determinable. 



FOSSIL PLANTS FROM THE BEWLEY ESTATE. 



[PI. LXXX, No. 90.] 

 Three specimens come from the Bewley estate. The locality is 

 described on the label accompanying them as "Bewley estate, Branch- 

 ville, Md., Patuxent?'"" They occur in an arenaceous yellow clay, 

 which is not cleavable, and they are very obscure. One specimen each 

 of DioonUes Buchianus (Ett.) Born.'?, Menispenmtes virginiensis Font.?, 

 and Sphenopteris latiloba Font.? were found here. None of them can 

 be positively determined, and of course these plants have no value for 

 the determination of the age of the beds which contain them. Indeed, 

 correctly detemiined, their evidence would be contradictor}^ as Meni- 

 spermites virginiensis belongs to the Aquia Creek horizon and Dioonites 

 Buchianus to the James River and Rappahannock member. The 

 specimens are all under one label with the number 3838, but the insti- 

 tution to which they belong is not indicated. 



FOSSIL PLANTS FROM MIIKKIRK. 



[PI. LXXX, No. 101.] 



In January, 1888, IMr. J. B. Hatcher, working under the direction 

 of Prof. 0. C. IMarsh for the United States Geological Survey, collected 

 in an iron-ore pit known as Coffin's engine mine, 1 mile south of ]\Iuir- 

 kirk, ]\Id., 50 mud casts of small cones. He stated that they came 

 from about 12 feet below the surface and were associated with verte- 

 brate bones, of which he obtained the well-known collection described 

 by Professor IMarsh. 



On May 19, 1891, another collection was made for the United States 

 Geological Survey from the same mine, but wholly from the dump, the 



o The bed yielding thc^e plants is in the left bank of the Paint Branch above where the Metzerott road 

 crosses it and near the Baltimore pike just above the bridge. The vertical bluff is 1.5 feet high and consists 

 of paint clays and shales of lively pink and blue colors and well stratified. They seem to be a transgression 

 of the Patapsco. The specimens, however, do not come from these clays, but from the coarser beds that 

 overlie them. — L. F. W. 



