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the fossil flora of Vancouver’s Island has produced the same 
misapprehensions as the Cretaceous flora of Nebraska. This, how- 
r, is not to be wondered at, and conveys no reproach to the emi- 
nt scientific men who have been misled by it. The identification 
Species by few and fragmentary specimens, or still worse by 
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in regard to the generic relations of the plants described, it 
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Nand Montana. The truth probably is that both formations are 
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4 locality not far distant in the interior. pe 
Orcas Island, which occupies an intermediate position be- 
1 Bellingham: Bay and Vancouver's Island, a collection of 
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e include ferns, palms and broad-leaved plants described in the 
' to which I have alluded, where they are referred to the 
us period. | 
ombining the contributions thus made to our knowledge of the 
staceous flora, and referring to this formation all that we now 
to belong there, we have the following list of genera - 
