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Fig. 1 represents a knee, reduced to about one-fifth natural size, which 
was detached from one of the stumps standing exposed on the beach at 
Bodkin Point. 
Fig. 2 represents a “burl” or excrescence, reduced to about one-half 
natural size, which was broken from one of the branches dug out of the 
mass of debris at the base of the bluff at the same place. 
Occurrence—Ta.por Formation. Bodkin Point, Grace Point, and 
_ Pond Neck. 
Collections.—Maryland Geological Survey. 
Genus SEQUOIA Endl. 
SEQUOIA ANGUSTIFOLIA Lesq. 
Plate LX XI, Figs. 16, 17. 
Sequoia angustifolia Lesq., 1872, Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 
Terr., p. 372, 
Sequoia angustifolia Lesq., 1878, Tert. F1., p. 77, pl. vii, figs. 6-10. 
Sequoia angustifolia Lesq., 1883, Cret. and Tert. Fl, p. 240, pl. 1, fig. 5. 
Description.—These specimens are referred provisionally to this species, 
for the reason that they also resemble very closely a number of figures 
Which have been identified as the closely allied species 8. langsdorfi 
(Brgt.) Heer, so that it is a matter of considerable difficulty to decide 
between them. Heer’s figure of the latter (Fl. Tert. Helvet., vol. i, pl. 
xxl, fig. 4) is practically indistinguishable from the former and both are 
very similar to several forms of Taxodiwm, closely related to the living 
L. distichum (Linné) L. C. Rich, which, however, are still either more 
delicate or have leaves which are blunter than those from Maryland. A 
Specimen apparently identical is figured by Knowlton (18th Ann. Rept. 
U.S. Geol. Survey, Pt. 3, pl. xcix, fig. 4) and referred provisionally to 
8. angustifolia, but he says (p. 723) “It is likely that in a revision of 
American fossil Sequoias this will have to be made a new species, unless 
it can be correlated with some known form.” 
Occurrence.—SuNpERLAND Formation. Near the headwaters of Is- 
: land Creek, Calvert County. 
_ Collections Maryland Geological Survey. 
