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species to be more common in the North Carolina Pleistocene than 
it is. Its rarity, however, may be one of the exigencies of preserva- 
tion, since I have noticed that the modern gum leaves decay much 
more rapidly than do most other leaves, judging by their comparative 
state of preservation in the recent leaf-rafts and leaf-beds along the 
North Carolina rivers. 
PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS L. 
Knowlton, American Geologist, Vol. XVIII (1896), p. 371. 
Penhallow, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (II),.Vol. II (1896), 
Sec. 4, pp. 68, 72. 
Platanus aceroides Goépp.: Hollick, Maryland Geological Survey, Pliocene 
and Pleistocene (1906), p. 231, Plates 73, 74. 
Fragmentary leaves of this species were common, and one flattened 
“buttonball” was found at station 850. 
This seems to have been one of the common types of the Pleisto- 
cene. Recorded from the Sunderland, or oldest Pleistocene, of 
Maryland, as well as in the interglacial Don River deposits of Canada 
and the glacial terraces. at Morgantown, W. Va. The Carolina 
leaves average somewhat smaller than do those of the modern tree. 
RUBUS SP. 
Based on a small branch with characteristic prickles, found at 
station 850. 
MALUS CORONARIAFOLIA sp. nov. 
Leaves triangularly ovate with acute apex and rounded base, 4°™ 
by 3.1°™, with four or five incised lobes on each side, the margins 
finely salient-serrate. Based on leaves very like those of the Ameri- 
can crab apple, Malus coronaria (L.) Mill, found at station 850. 
Besides these leaves there are others somewhat resembling the modern 
Malus angustifolia, but not yet positively determined. 
CRATAEGUS. SPATHULATOIDES sp. nov. 
Based on leaves like those of the modern small-fruited haw, 
Crataegus spathulata Michx; which they resemble so closely that 
further specific characterization is unnecessary. Collected at station 
850. 
