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Show i Ice-Age Vegetation Very-Like Very-Like Ours cf Today Remains of an Ice-a-.'O rypre-s for--,t have b'-'-ii ut:oartl.i;4 near An-ininoMi An-ininoMi by It. Charles T. Rerry, 'Johns Hopkins university paleou-toIoNt. paleou-toIoNt. j Seeds believed to Indicate the type ! f Testation, which covered this 'section of the country from 2:",000 to lOO.OuO years ago, ulso were discovered dis-covered by Doctor Rerry. Waves cutting Into the face of Greenbury point were responsible for Doctor Rerry's discovery. The forest Is directly across the Severn river from Annapolis. The swamp consisted chiefly of bald cypress trees, believed to huve flourished In Pleistocene days. It apparently tilled a deep valley through which ran two ancient streams from one to three feet deep and several feet wide. At the extreme end of the point, and exposed only at low tide, are approximately 25 cypress stumps from two to six or more feet ln diameter. At the cliff's base Is a five-foot bed of black clay, in the lower portion of which roots and knees of stumps are so Interwoven that they sometimes form a solid wooden floor. Doctor Berry was able to Identify several species of Ice-age vegetation vegeta-tion from seeds gathered in the muck. It was pointed out, however, that the ancient vegetation did not differ greatly from that growing In the area today. |