The knowledge of fossil plants and of the history of the vegetable kingdom has, until recently, been so fragmentary that it seemed hopeless to attempt a detailed treatment of the subject of this little book.
The writer of this work, born in a district rich in fossil plants, began to collect and work at these as a boy, in connection with botanical and geological pursuits.
Most collectors of fossil plants in the older formations must, I presume, be familiar with appearances of this kind in connection with small stems, petioles, fragments of wood, and carpolites.
I see there is a paper at the Royal on the same night, which will more concern you, on fossil plants of Bovey (606/3.
Since the publication of Blanford's paper, much literature has appeared dealing with the evidence furnished by fossil plants, etc.
See "Fossil Plants as Tests of Climate," page 40, A.
The result was the production of so perfect a counterpart of fossil plantsas might have deceived an experienced geologist.
Brown had always taken a keen interest in fossil plants, although, so far as I am aware, he only wrote one paper on the subject.
I am indebted to Mr Philip Witham, a member of the family, for some information about Henry Witham, of Lartington, the first Englishman to investigate the internal structure of fossil plants.
They have yielded more than 200 species of fossil plants, described by the late Professor Unger.
In this and subsequent remarks on fossil plants I shall often use Dr.
Even in the Superga itself there are somefossil plants which, according to Heer, have never been found in Switzerland so high as the marine Molasse, such as Banksia longifolia, and Carpinus grandis.
This opinion I was enabled to confirm after collecting a large number of fossil plants, fish, and shells, and examining the coal-field throughout its whole area.
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It is heavy walking along their base, but as compensation there are strata within reach in which you may find exhaustless deposits of fossil plants, giant ferns, and others.
And of all the produits of the vegetable kingdom that are capable of preservation--3ยบ of the collection of fossil plants.
The mass of information which has been collected about fossil plants is now enormous, and the greatest difficulty in writing this little book has been the necessity of eliminating much that is of great interest.
Calamites are among the most abundant fossil plants of the Carboniferous period, and occur also in the Devonian.
Their fruit, which are cones with rounded scales, are imbricated, and have only a single seed, thus bearing out the strong resemblance which has been traced between these fossil plants, and the Damara.
Among the Equiseta of the Permian formation of Saxony, Colonel Von Gutbier found Calamites gigas and sixty species of fossil plants, most of them Ferns, forty of which have not been found elsewhere.
Fossil plants are by no means so easily examined as recent species.
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