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Platanus aceroides Gopp., Hollick, INlaryland Geological Survey, 

 Pliocene and Pleistocene, p. 231, pi. 73, 74, 1906. 



In the modern flora this species inhabits low woods and banks 

 from Canada to Florida and Texas. In Alabama it frequents the 

 bottom lands of the central part of the state and is infrequent in the 

 southern part. It is an abundant Pleistocene type and has been 

 previously recorded from Canada, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West 

 Virginia and North Carolina. The Abercrombies Landing remains 

 include the fragment of a central part of a leaf shown in the figure, 

 which has the characteristic venation but none of the marginal 

 characters and which comes from the clays; and a still smaller 

 fragment from tlie underlying peat which shows one of the marginal 



Ilex opaca Ait., Hart. Kew., vol. 1, p. 169, 17S9. 

 PI. 2, Fig. 1. 



Hollick, Bull. Torrcy Clvh, vol. 19, p. 331, 1S92. 

 Berry, Journ. GroL, vol. 15, p. 34,"), 1907. 



The holly frequents damp banks and hammock lands in Alabama 

 and ranges northward to New York and southeastern ^Nlassachu- 

 setts. It has been recorded by Hollick from the supposed Miocene 

 at Bridgeton, N. J., and by the writer from the North Carolina 

 Pleistocene. A single specimen was found at Abercrombies Land- 

 ing in the peat. 



EincAi.Es. 



Xolisma ligustrina (Linne) Britton, Mem. Torrcij Club, vol. 4, 

 p. 135, 1S9 I. PI. 2, Fig. 6. 



Hollick, Maryland Geological Survey, Plhrnic and Plcisio- 



rriir, p. I'.Ki. pj. 69, fig. 6, 1906. 



Px iry, dnurn. CroL, vol. 15, p. 346, 1907. 

 In tli(> |>ivs( nt Alahania Ilora the typical forms of this species 

 inhabit the (lanip hanks cf .mail sin ams in the mountainous por- 

 tion of the slate. It is (;!' a gcneiiilly more northern distribution, 

 having its southern limit along the southern edge of the metamor- 



