FOSSIL PLANTS FROM VERO. 
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Florida. It is present in Polk County in the Lake region of the 
central part of the peninsula, and probably extends with the south¬ 
ward extension of this region into DeSoto County. In the Missis¬ 
sippi embayment region it extends northward to Arkansas and 
southwestern Tennessee. Cones, scales and seeds have been re¬ 
corded from the late Pleistocene of New Jersey (i) and Alabama 
( 2 ). 
PINUS CARIB'AEA MORELET SLASH PINE 
The occurrence of this species in the Vero deposits is based on a 
single characteristic cone scale. In the existing flora this pine is a 
West Indian and Central American species which extends north¬ 
ward over the southern half of the Florida peninsula. Farther 
north it has been frequently confused with Pinus Elliottii, a per¬ 
fectly distinct species, which ranges northward to South Carolina. 
The former is common at Vero in the existing flora and has not 
previously been found fossil to my knowledge. 
PINUS SP. 
Fossil occurrence based on several immature seeds which are 
not specifically determinable. They suggest the abortive seeds in 
the distal part of the cones of Pinus clausa, but might equally well 
represent abortive seeds of some other species. Pinus clausa, the 
sand or spruce pine, is common along sandy shores and on old inland 
beach ridges in the vicinity of Vero at the present time. 
GENUS TAXODIUM RICH. 
TAXODIUM DISTICHUM (LINN.) RICH. THE BALD CYPRESS. 
The bald cypress, which is one of the most abundant trees in the 
Pleistocene of our Southern States and is already well characterized 
in the late Pliocene of Alabama (i), is represented in the Vero 
deposits by a number of seeds and cone scales, but these remains are 
not abundant enough to suggest the presence of a cypress pond. 
(i) Berry, E. W., U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 98L, p. 195, pi. 45, figs. 1-6, 1916. 
(1) Berry, E. W., Am. Jour. Sci. (IV), vol. 29, p. 391, 1910. 
(2) Berry, E. W., Torreya, vol. 10, p. 263, 1910. 
