226 SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY 



to the air. The ones figured were drawn before the matrix had had time 

 to dry. 



Occurrence. — Talbot Formation. Drum Point, Calvert County. 



Collections. — Maryland Geological Survey. 



Family FAGACEAE. 



Genus FAGUS Linne. 

 Fagus Americana Sweet. 

 Fagus americana Sweet, 1826, Hort. Brit., p. 370. 



Description. — Nuts and husks, sometimes separate from each other, 

 sometimes entire, are amongst the most abundantly represented objects 

 in the swamp deposits. 



Occurrence. — Talbot Formation. Bodkm Point, Anne Arundel 

 County, Grace Point, Baltimore County, and Grove Point, Cecil County. 

 Collections. — Maryland Geological Survey. 



Fagus sp. ? 

 Plate LXX, Fig. 3. 



Description. — This fragment apparently represents the leaf of a Beech, 

 but there is not enough upon which to either make comparisons or base 

 a description. 



Occurrence. — Sunderland Formation. Point of Eocks, Calvert 

 County. 



Collections. — Maryland Geological Survey. 



Genus QUERCUS Linne. 



Quercus glennii n. sp. 



Plate LXXII, Figs. 3-5. 



Description. — Leaves oblong-lanceolate (?) in outline, tapering to the 



apex, rounded or narrowed (?) to the base; margin somewhat irregular 



or wavy, minutely denticulate; secondaries springing from the midrib at 



varying angles, curving upward, sub-camptodrome, with fine nervilles ex- 



