| Show 1 r Ic Age Id-Age e Age J Vegetation Very Like Ours Oura of Today I Remains of or an nn Ice age cypress for tor- forest forest est have been unearthed near Annapolis An- An by lIy Dr Char Charles Ie T Perry Berry Johns Hopkins university paleontologist paleontologist aleon I Seeds believed to Indicate the type ot of vegetation whIch covered this I section of or the tile country from 2 to years a ago o also were dis discovered cov covered by Doctor Berry Derry I Waves cutting Into the face tace ace of at I Greenbury point were responsIble for Doctor Berrys Berry's discovery The forest Is 15 directly across the Severn river from Annapolis The swamp consisted chiefly y ot of bald Id cypress trees believed to have flourished In Pleistocene days It apparently filled a deep valley through b which ran two ancient streams from one to three feet deep and several feet icet wide At the extreme end of or time tile point end nd exposed only at nt low tide are 25 cypress cypres stumps from Irom two o to six or more feet In diameter At the clUs clU's base Is foot n a foot five bed of ot black clay day In the lower portion of or which roots and knees of ot stumps are so Interwoven that they sometimes form a solid soUd wooden floor Doctor Berry was able to Identity several species of at Ice ago ve vegetation eta eta- lion tion from seeds gathered In the mud muck It was pointed out out however that the ancient ve vegetation did not differ greatly y from that growing crowIng In Inthe inthe the area today |
