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of a Panax-like form and a fan palm identical with what Lesque- 

 reux called Sabal gray ana. The latter was originally described 

 from the Lignitic 1 and the former, while apparently new, is closely 

 allied to early Tertiary forms from southern Europe. Few forms 

 abundantly represented may be taken as indicating that the 

 plants were not drifted into the basin of sedimentation from a 



Fig. 4. — View showing the type-section of the Lafayette just south of the depot 

 at Oxford, Miss. 



distance but that they grew in the immediate vicinity and that the 

 shallow waters of the Mississippi gulf in Wilcox time were not 

 marine in this latitude. This is also indicated by the impressions of 

 Unios in this same clay lens. At some of the other plant localities 

 visited, as for example that at Holly Springs and Early Grove in 

 Mississippi and at Grand Junction and La Grange in Tennessee, 

 all of which are specific Lafayette localities of McGee, the fossil 

 floras are more varied and consist of species of Cercis, Laurus, 



1 Lesquereux, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, XIII (1869), 412, PL XIV, Figs. 4-6. 



