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Alabama 



A few miles below Columbus, Georgia, along the west bank 

 of the Chattahoochee River in Russell County and in the vicinity 

 of Abercrombie Landing, the late Pleistocene terrace contains 

 considerable deposits of impure peat which in places carries 

 identifiable plant remains. A collection made here in 1907 by 

 L. W. Stephenson was described by me that same year and twelve 

 species were recorded.* I made additional collections in 1909 

 and subsequently recorded four additional species. f 



In a recent review of this material characteristic seeds of 

 Phytolacca decandra L. were recognized, but since care was not 

 taken to exclude recent seeds in the collecting of large specimens 

 containing leaves, it is possible that this is a recent seed, although 

 it has the appearance of being fossil and not recent. In addition 

 to the foregoing the stones of an undetermined species of Rubus 

 were identified from this locality. 



During 1913 Dr. C. W. Cooke of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 made a collection of leaves from a grey argillaceous sand exposed 

 about three miles west of Monroeville, Monroe County. The 

 elevation is about 470 feet and the material is of a sort which is 

 characteristic of what has hitherto been called Lafayette forma- 

 tion in this region. The collection, while not large, contains the 

 following forms : 

 Arundinaria sp. (probably Quercus virginiana Miller 



macrosperma Michx.) Platanus sp. (probably occi- 



Hicoria aguatica (Michx. f.) dentalis L.) 



Britton Persea puhescens (Pursh) Sar- 



Quercus phellos L. gent 



These six forms are all still existing and all of them have pre- 

 viously been recorded from the Pleistocene of the southern coastal 

 plain so that I have no hesitation in asserting that the deposits 

 are of Pleistocene age. 



Mississippi 



In 1 9 10 I collected the following plants from a clay -lens in the 

 Pleistocene terrace materials exposed along the Chickasawhay 



* Berry, E. W., Amer. Nat. 41: 689-697. pi. 1-2. 1907. 

 t Berry, E. W., Amer. Jour. Sci. iv. 29: 387-398. 1910. 



