PLEISTOCENE FLORA OF NORTH CAROLINA 339 
The assumptions on the part of the writer are drawn from the 
analogy of the Maryland and South Carolina Pleistocene, where an 
abundant marine fauna has been found. The locality along the 
Roanoke River will be referred to as Old Mill, and that on the 
Neuse River as station 850, the latter shown on the United States 
Engineers’ blueprint map of the Neuse River. Citations will be 
made only of fossil occurrences. 
ENUMERATION OF SPECIES 
SPERMATOPHYTA 
GYMNOSPERMAE 
Coniferales 
PINUS RIGIDA Mill. 
Penhallow, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Vol. X (1904), sec. 4, 
p. 69. 
Characteristic leaves of this species, which are stout and stiff, some 
of them still in fascicles of three with the sheaths preserved, occur at 
station 850. , 
In the modern flora this species ranges from New Brunswick to 
Georgia, and west to Ontario and Kentucky, in dry sandy or rocky 
soil. It is a dominant form in the so-called ‘‘pine barrens” of New 
Jersey, and ranges farther north than do most of the members of the 
North Carolina Pleistocene flora. Wood has been recorded by Pen- 
hallow (doc. cit.) from a well-boring at Ithaca, N. Y. 
The European Pleistocene contains several species based on foli- 
age, cones, seeds and wood. In America Pinus strobus L. has been 
recorded from New Brunswick and Maryland, and Pinus echinata 
Mill from Maryland. 
TAXODIUM DISTICHUM (L.) L. C. Rich. 
Holmes, Journal of Elisha Mitchell Society for 1884-85, p. 92 (1885). 
Berry, Torreya, Vol. VI (1906), p. 80. 
Hollick, Maryland Geological Survey, Pliocene and Pleistocene (1906), p. 218, 
Plate 68. 
Cypress swamps seem to have been a feature of the Pleistocene of 
the Atlantic coast. Several such, with stumps, knees, cones, and 
seeds, have been described from Maryland, and I am able to record 
another from near Rehobeth, Dela. 
t Communicated by Dr. C. K. Swartz. 
