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Show Ice-Age Vegetation Very Like Ours of Today HemaJns of an Ice-age cypress forest for-est have been unearthed near Annapolis An-napolis by Dr. Charles T. Berry, Johns Hopkins university paleontologist paleon-tologist Seeds believed to Indicate the type of vegetation, which covered this section of the country from 25,000 to 100,000 years ago, also were discovered dis-covered by Doctor Berry. Waves cutting Into the face of !ret!nbtiry point were responsible for Doctor Berry's discovery. The forest Is directly across the Severn river from Annapolis. The swamp consisted chiefly of fcald cypress trees, believed to have nourished 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 in 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 3iffer greatly from that growing in the area today. |