FOSSIL PLANTS FROM VERO. 
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The Saw Palmetto is a shrubby gregarious species now found 
from South Carolina to Louisiana and common nearly throughout 
Florida, forming the prevailing scrub of the pine lands or flatwoods. 
It is exceedingly abundant around Vero on undrained sands, but 
has not heretofore been found fossil. 
GENUS SABAL ADANSON. 
SABAL PALMETTO (WALT.) R. & S. CABBAGE PALMETTO . 
This species is represented in the Vero deposits by fragments 
of the clasping petiole bases and by stones. It was evidently as 
abundant a tree at the time the Vero deposits were formed as it is 
now in this region. 
The cabbage palmetto ranges from the mouth of the Cape Fear 
River in North Carolina along the coast to the mouth of the Apa¬ 
lachicola River and reaches its maximum development in the Florida 
peninsula. As far as I know it has not heretofore been found 
fossil. 
DICOTYLEDONAE. 
ORDER MYRICALES. 
FAMILY MYRICACEAE. 
GENUS MYRICA LINN. 
MYRICA CERIFERA LINN. WAX MYRTLE • 
Nutlets and leaves represent this species in the Vero deposits. 
The wax myrtle ranges from Cape May, New Jersey, to Texas 
along the coast, as well as in the Antilles. It is very common as a 
small tree in sandy swamps near Vero. 
FAMILY LEIFNERIACEAE. 
GENUS LEITNERIA CHAPMAN. 
LEITNERIA FLORIDANA CHAPMAN (?) CORK WOOD. 
This species is apparently represented in the Vero deposits by 
the characteristic persistent winter buds. 
