ig. 134: Creodaphne Heerii.
Leaf[[5]]
Fig. 135: Liquidambar europæum, var. trilobatum, A. Br. (sometimes four-lobed, and more commonly five-lobed).
a. Leaf. b. Part of same. c. Fruit. d. Seed Œningen.
M. Gaudin, jointly with the Marquis Strozzi, has thrown much light on the botany of beds of the same age in another part of Tuscany, at a place called Montajone, between the rivers Elsa and Evola, where, among other plants, is found the Oreodaphne Heerii, Gaud. (see Fig. 134), which is probably only a variety of Oreodaphne foetens, or the laurel called the Til in Madeira, where, as in the Canaries, it constitutes a large portion of the native woods, but cannot now endure the climate of Europe. In the fossil specimens the same glands or protuberances are preserved[[6]] (see Fig. 134) as those which are seen in the axils of the primary veins of the leaves in the recent Til. Another plant also indicating a warmer climate is the Liquidambar europæum, Brong. (see Fig. 135), a species nearly allied to L. styracifluum, L., which flourishes in most places in the Southern States of North America, on the borders of the Gulf of Mexico.
[1] See Antiquity of Man, chap. xiv.
[2] Ehrenberg proposed in 1831 the term Bryozoum, or “Moss-animal,” for the molluscous or ascidian form of polyp, characterised by having two openings to the digestive sack, as in Eschara, Flustra, Retepora, and other zoophytes popularly included in the corals, but now classed by naturalists as mollusca. The term Polyzoum, synonymous with Bryozoum, was, it seems, proposed in 1830, or the year before, by Mr. J. O. Thompson.
[3] E. Forbes Mem. Geol. Survey of Gt. Brit., vol. i, p. 386.
[4] See a Memoir on the Lavas and Mode of Origin of Mount Etna by the Author in Phil. Trans., 1858.
[5] Feuilles fossiles de la Toscane.
[6] Contributions à la Flore fossile Italienne. Gaudin and Strozzi. Plate 11, Fig. 3. Gaudin, p. 22.