FOSSIL PLANTS FROM KUKAK BAY 
BY FRANK HALL KNOWLTON 
Sometime toward the close of 1900 I received through 
Dr. W. H. Dali, of the U. S. Geological Survey, several 
small boxes of fossil plants that had been obtained by the 
Harriman Expedition to Alaska. They were collected, I 
am informed, by Mr. DeA. Saunders, in Kukak Bay, on the 
Alaska Peninsula, a little north of west from Kadiak Island. 
The only information available regarding their occurrence 
is contained in the following brief note sent me by Mr. 
Palache : “ There was no geologist with the party that 
found them, and the data concerning them are extremely 
meager. I have no section showing relations, nor do I 
know what the attitude of the strata was. With them were 
coarse conglomerates and grits, said to be interbedded, but 
I do not know whether above or below ; also andesitic 
lavas which were, I believe, overlying the plant beds.” 1 
SYSTEMATIC ENUMERATION OF SPECIES 
Family EQUISETACBiE 
Equisetum globulosum Lesq. 
Equisetumglobulosum Lesq., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. v, p. 444, pi. vi, 
figs. 1, 2, 1882. 
The collection contains two fragmentary examples that seem to be- 
1 In litt., Jan. 22, 1902. See also page 28. 
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