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THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 



Vol. XLII1 



exoearp. and not distinguishable iron 

 occur in the peat deposits near Tapp; 

 flora this wide-spread species ranges 

 Pacific and from southern Canada to 

 It has not heretofore been recorded 

 genus dates back to the middle Eocer 

 not abundantly represented at any h 

 as Otitis psnido-crassi folia by Hollicl 

 tocene (Sunderland) of Maryland, 

 monly represented in the late Tertiary 

 recorded from the Pliocene, but noi 

 aware from the Pie 



Ilex Cassixe Linne. 



This species which in the modern flora is a denizen of low 

 woods and river banks near the coast from Virginia to Florida 

 and west to Louisiana has not heretofore been found fossil. 

 Eight specimens of leaves are in the collection from the right 

 bank of the Rappahannock River one and one half miles below 

 Port Royal. They are identical with the less elongated leaves 

 of the modern plant and would seem to indicate, if their habitat 

 has remained unchanged, that the Talbot coast line was much 

 farther to the west of where it is to-day, a fact fully borne out 

 by the areal distribution of the deposits of the Talbot Sea. They 

 also show that in Talbot time this species ranged somewhat 

 farther north than it does at the present time, since southern 

 Virginia marks its present northern limit according to Sudworth. 



Ericales 

 Dexdrium pleistocexicum Berry. 



Berry, Journ. Geol, vol. 15, p. 346, 1907. 



Leaves of this species described originally from the Pleistocene 

 of central North Carolina are present from one and one half 

 miles below Port Royal on the Rappahannock River. They are 

 considerably smaller than the North Carolina leaves, but are 

 identical with them in outline and venation and they are also 

 von- similar to the leaves of the existing Dendrium buxi folium 

 (Berg.) Desv. As previously pointed out, they probably repre- 

 sent the ancestral form from which the modern upland species, 

 Dendrium hugeri and the pine-barren species Dendrium buxi- 

 folium were derived. Edward W. Berry. 



Johns Hopkixs Fxiversity, Baltimore, Md. 



