STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SKYKOMISH BASIN 



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Genus Taxodium 



Taxodium distichum Miocenum (Heer), Fig. 5, C; Fig. 7, D. 



Heer: Miocene Baltische Flora (1869), p. 18; Taf. II, III, Figs. 6, 7. 

 Newberry: Later Extinct Floras 0} N.Am., p. 22; PL XLVII, Fig. 6; PL LI, 



Fig. 3, in part; PL LII, Figs. 2, 3, 4; PL LV, Fig. 5. 

 Lesquereux: Tertiary Flora (1878), VII, 223; VIII, 73. 



Fig. 6. — Lawns cascadia var. leve. (§ natural size) 



p IG 7- — a, B, B 1 , Lanrus cascadia. C, Sequoia nordenskioldii. D, Taxodium 

 distichum miocenum. (i natural size.) 



The Cascade specimens are quite typical. The form is Green- 

 land Miocene or basal Eocene in age. 



