TORREYA 



December, 1910 

 Vol. 10 No. 12 



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ADDITIONS TO THE PLEISTOCENE FLORA OF NEW YO 



NEW JERSEY* goTANiCAi 



By Edward Wilber Berry OaKOE • 



No very promising localities for Pleistocene plants have thus 

 far been discovered in the New Jersey area. The long-known 

 and justly-celebrated Fish House clays in Camden county have 

 yielded a considerable Pleistocene fauna, both vertebrate and 

 invertebrate; and vegetable remains are not uncommon in the 

 clays, but they are poorly preserved and difficult or impossible 

 to determine. The writer has previously mentioned the presence 

 at this locality of fragmentary maple leaves, seeds of the gum, 

 and leaves of the linden, the latter occurrence having been 

 described in a previous issue of Torreya.I Still other seeds are 

 present but they have not been identified. 



Another New Jersey locality for Pleistocene plants was dis- 

 covered by H. S. Gane in 1892 while working for the U. S. 

 Geological Survey under the direction of Prof. W. B. Clark. 

 The writer has not visited this locality, which is near Long Branch 

 in Monmouth County, and such of the following notes as refer 

 to this locality are based upon a small collection of the impure 

 peat made at that time. The late Pleistocene age of these de- 

 posits near Long Branch has never been questioned, but there 

 has been considerable divergence in the age assigned to the Fish 

 House clays at different times. The following brief enumeration 

 will give a good idea of the varying opinions which have been 

 held regarding the age of these beds. Lea, Cook, and Whitfield 

 regarded them as Cretaceous and of the same age as the Amboy 

 clays; Cope at one time regarded them as Pliocene but later 



*Illustrated with the aid of the Catherine McManes fund. 



OfBerry, Torreya, 7: 80, 81. 1907. 

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