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several cases there are distinct traces of the "knees" clustered 

 about the base of the stumps. It is a great wonder that the wood 

 of these stumps is in as good condition as it is considering the 

 ice and storms which they withstand during the winter months. 

 Figure 1 shows the face of the Point and several of the cypress 

 stumps partly submerged in the water. 



At the time of my first visit to this locality I collected a 

 large quantity of the black carbonaceous muck with the hope 

 that I might be able to find some seeds in it. However, after 

 spending considerable time working over this material while 

 it was soaking in water, I was forced to conclude that seeds 

 must be very rare in the deposit. It was therefore with great 

 enthusiasm that I collected the following fossil material which 

 had weathered out on the surface of the bed. These fossils are: 

 — Rhizomes, Vitis cordifolia, leaves of Taxodium sp., acorns 

 and cups of Quercus sp., and Retinodiplosis taxodii. 



Rhizomes 



Several rhizomes belonging to some species of monocoty- 

 ledon, probably a marsh plant were found — one of which I have 

 illustrated (Fig. 2, No. 4). This one is more or less spherical 

 except for shriveling. At one end there is a circular depression 

 while at the opposite end there is a bunch of stubby rootlets. 

 Circumscribing this rhizome are several very thin ridges — two 

 of which can be seen in the figure — which are about equally 

 distant from each other. Upon these ridges there are tiny 

 nodes unequally spaced which form the base of the short root- 

 lets. Nearer one end these rootlets are more numerous and 

 more closely spaced. 



Very similar rhizomes are found on various kinds of swamp 

 grasses today. 



Vitis cordifolia Michaux 



There was only one specimen of this grape seed collected, 

 but it is in a very good state of preservation. This grape is 

 commonly called chicken or frost grape among many other 

 names and it inhabits low lying areas near streams and in 

 swamp thickets. Britton and Brown gives the range as from 

 New England westward to Nebraska and south to Florida and 



