Ancient Plants / Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of Nature

by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Contents

Chap. Page [I. Introductory] 1 [II. Various Kinds of Fossil Plants] 6 [III. Coal, the most Important of Plant Remains] 22 [IV. The Seven Ages of Plant Life] 33 [V. Stages in Plant Evolution] 43 VI. Minute Structure of Fossil Plants— [​ ​ ​ Likenesses to Living Ones] 53 [VII. ″ ″ Differences from Living Ones] 69 VIII. Past Histories of Plant Families— [​ ​ ​ (i) Flowering Plants] 79 [IX. ″ ″ (ii) Higher Gymnosperms] 86 [X. ″ ″ (iii) Bennettitales] 102 [XI. ″ ″ (iv) The Cycads] 109 [XII. ″ ″ (v) Pteridosperms] 114 [XIII. ″ ″ (vi) The Ferns] 124 [XIV. ″ ″ (vii) The Lycopods] 133 [XV. ″ ″ (viii) The Horsetails] 145 [XVI. ″ ″ (ix) Sphenophyllales] 153 [XVII. ″ ″ (x) The Lower Plants] 161 [XVIII. Fossil Plants as Records of Ancient Countries] 168 [XIX. Conclusion] 174 APPENDIX [I. List of Requirements for a Collecting Expedition] 183 [II. Treatment of Specimens] 184 [III. Literature] 186 [​ Glossary] 188 [​ Footnotes] 193 [​ Index] 193