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Michigan. Grand Rapids, Miss Cole, June 8, 1892 (K. M.); 

 Harsen's Island, St. Clair County, Dodge, July 18, 191 1 (K. M.); 

 Port Huron, St. Clair County, Dodge, July 17, 191 1 (K. M.). 



Indiana. Grass Lake, Steuben Co., Deam 1202, July 22, 1906 

 <N. Y. & K. M.); Wolf Lake, Mrs. Chase 1396, July 26, 1900 

 <K. M.). 



Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Hasse, June 25, 1882 (N. Y.). 



ADDITIONS TO THE PLEISTOCENE FLORA OF THE 

 SOUTHERN STATES* 



By Edward Wilber Berry 



During the last few years I have collected or received for 

 identification several small collections of fossil plants from various 

 localities and horizons in the Pleistocene of North Carolina, Ala- 

 bama and Mississippi, and since these should be a matter of 

 published record for the benefit of botanists and others interested 

 in the question of the former distribution of existing species, the 

 following brief compilation has been made. 



North Carolina 

 The first of these collections is from North Carolina. A most 

 interesting deposit containing fossil plants was discovered in 

 1906 on the right bank of the Neuse River about four and one- 

 lialf miles above Seven Springs in Wayne County. The section 

 ■shows at its base a tough blue clay interstratified with layers of 

 leaves, fruits, wood, and other vegetable debris, overlain by 

 ■sand and gravel, and exposed in the recent cutting of the river. f 

 The manner of occurrence indicates that at the time of deposi- 

 tion the locality was at the head of a Pleistocene estuary, the 

 plant material accumulating exactly as it is at the present time 

 along the coastal plain rivers. The collection from this locality 

 was of such exceptional interest that a short account of it was 

 published in I907.t Thirty-eight species were listed, the locality 



* Published with the permission of the Director of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 t The deposits are referred to the Chowan formation by Stephenson, N. C. Geol. 

 Surv.. 3: 285. 1913. 



t Berry, E. W., Journ. Geol. 15: 338-349. 1907. 



