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is no means of communication by telegraph or wireless, and the 

 town, Villa Baleira, seems to be little altered from the time when 

 Columbus walked its streets and married the daughter of the 

 governor. Only Portuguese is spoken, and we should have had 

 a difficult time but for our friend Miss Nancy Paterson, the 

 daughter of the Scotch minister in Funchal, who has an intimate 

 knowledge of the language, the island and the people. With 

 her assistance we were able to secure an excellent guide, and 

 boat-crews to take us to the various islets. We found the people 

 most friendly, and left them with regret. Owing to the magnifi- 

 cent bathing beach (something that Madeira lacks) there is 

 now much talk of building a fashionable hotel for summer 

 tourists. Very likely a few years will see a complete change 

 in the character of the place, and though prosperity may come 

 thereby, something will be lost, which we — and Columbus — loved 

 in our time. 



ADDITIONAL OCCURRENCES OF PLEISTOCENE 

 PLANTS 



By Edward W. Berry 



A few additions to the Pleistocene flora of southeastern North 

 America are contained in the following brief notes upon two 

 small collections of fossil plants from Alabama and Tennessee. 



Alabama 



The following identifications are from material sent in by Dr. 

 E. A. Smith, the State Geologist of Alabama. The plants occur 

 in a 2)^2 foot peaty bed, underlain by white sand and overlain by 

 about 1 6 feet of cla^^ and sand, exposed in a cut on the Louis- 

 ville and Nashville Railroad near Mountain Creek, Chilton 

 County, Alabama. The lithologic character of the materials 

 suggests a terrace deposit, and I regard the age as Pleistocene. 

 The collection contains much coniferous wood, too decayed for 

 generic determination, and the following named forms: 

 Pinus glabra Walt. Cones, cone axes and cone scales. This 

 jossil occurrence is about the present northern limit oi the 

 Southern Spruce Pine, or slightly beyond, since it is rare 

 north of the Central Prairie region of Alabama. In its wi<ler 

 range it is found from South Carolina to Louisiana. 



