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Show Extinct Trees. The ancient vegetation which grew in South Carolina and Georgia during Upper Cretaceous and Eocene time or. as geologists state, at least several j million years ago included the sequoia se-quoia or "big tree," now cor.-kned to the Pacific coast. Also there were three kinds of araucarlas or Norfolk island pines, which at the present time live only in South America and Australia: a pine with the leaves In clusters of three as In the living pitch pine, and a number of cypress-like trees which' were once widely spread over the world but are now extiuct |