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sian Tertiary. The present record is based upon abundant and 

 characteristic leaves collected by Dr. L. W. Stephenson from a 

 clay lens in the sands of the Wicomico formation, one and one- 

 fourth miles east of Weldon. One of the specimens is shown in 

 Fig. I. 



Fig. 1. Liriodendron Tulipifera Linne, from the Pleistocene of North Carolina. 



Resales 



Cercis canadensis Linne 

 Penhallow, Amer. Nat. 41 : 446. 1907. 



The accompanying figure (Fig. 2) shows a characteristic leaf 

 of this species which comes from one and one-fourth miles east of 

 Weldon. It has been previously recorded by Penhallow from the 

 famous interglacial deposits of the Don valley near Toronto and 

 in the modern flora it is said by both Britton and Small to range 

 northward to southern Ontario. Both Sargent and Sudworth 

 give its normal northern range as New Jersey and southern 

 Michigan from which points it ranges southward, to Florida and 

 Mexico. It is essentially a warm temperate type, most of its near 

 relatives being subtropical in habitat. Like the present species 

 in this country Cercis siliqiiastriiin Linne of southern Europe has 

 been found in the interglacial deposits of France. 



