Show Ice Age Ice Age Vegetation Very Like Ours Our of Today Remains of ot an Ice-ago Ice cypress forest for for- est eat have hare been unearthed near Annapolis Annapolis An An- by Dr Charles T T. T Berry Dem Johns Hopkins university Seeds believed to Indicate the type of vegetation which covered this section of the country from to years ago also elso were discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered by Doctor Berry Derr Waves Wares cutting Into the face of ot Greenbury point were responsible for Doctor Berrys Berry's discovery crr The forest is directly across the Severn river from Annapolis The swamp consisted chiefly of bald cypress trees believed to have flourished In Pleistocene days It apparently filled a deep valle valley through which ran two ancient streams from one to three t. t ree feet deep and several feet wide At the extreme end of ot the point and exposed only at low tide are approximately 25 cypress stumps I from two to six or more feet In diameter At the cliffs cliff's base la ts a foot five bed of black cla clay in to the lower portion of which roots and knees of stumps are so Interwoven that they sometimes form a solid soUd wooden floor Doctor Derr Berry was able to Identify several species of Ice-age Ice vegetation vegetation tion Uon from seeds gathered In the muck It was pointed out however that the ancient vegetation did not differ greatly from that growing In Inthe Inthe inthe the area today r |