The illustrations of this work are for the most part original; but some of them have previously appeared in special papers of the author.
J. W. D.
February, 1888.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| CHAPTER I. | ||
| Preliminary Ideas of Geological Chronology and of the Classification of Plants | [1] | |
| CHAPTER II. | ||
| Vegetation of the Laurentian and Early Paleozoic—Questions as to Algæ | [8] | |
| CHAPTER III. | ||
| The Erian or Devonian Forests—Origin of Petroleum—The Age of Acrogens and Gymnosperms | [45] | |
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| The Carboniferous Flora—Culmination of the Acrogens—Formation of Coal | [110] | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| The Flora of the Early Mesozoic—Reign of Pines and Cycads | [175] | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| The Reign of Angiosperms in the Later Cretaceous and Early Tertiary or Kainozoic | [191] | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Plants from the Tertiary to the Modern Period | [219] | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| General Laws of Origin and Migrations of Plants—Relations of Recent and Fossil Floras | [237] | |
| APPENDIX. | ||
| I. | Comparative View of Paleozoic Floras | [273] |
| II. | Heer’s Latest Statements on the Greenland Flora | [281] |
| III. | Mineralisation of Fossil Plants | [284] |
| IV. | General Works on Palæobotany | [286] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Table of Chronology of Plants | ([Frontispiece.]) |
| Protannularia Harknessii | [21] |
| Nematophyton Logani (three Figures) | [22], [23] |
| Trail of King-Crab | [28] |
| Trail of Carboniferous Crustacean | [28] |
| Rusichnites | [29] |
| Palæophycus | [30] |
| Astropolithon | [31] |
| Carboniferous Rill-mark | [33] |
| Cast of Shrinkage Cracks | [34] |
| Cone-in-cone | [36] |
| Buthotrephis | [37] |
| Silurian Vegetation | [40] |
| Erian Plants | [49] |
| Protosalvinia | [54] |
| Ptilophyton (two Figures) | [62], [63] |
| Psilophyton (two Figures) | [64], [66] |
| Sphenophyllum | [65] |
| Lepidodendron | [66] |
| Various Ferns | [72], [73] |
| Archæopteris | [74] |
| Caulopteris | [75] |
| Megalopteris | [76] |
| Calamites | [77] |
| Asterophyllites | [78] |
| Dadoxylon | [79] |
| Cordaites | [81] |
| Erian Fruits | [82] |
| Foliage from the Coal-formation | [111] |
| Sigillariæ (five Figures) | [112]-[114] |
| Stigmariæ (two Figures) | [115] |
| Vegetable Tissues | [117] |
| Coals and Erect Trees (two Figures) | [118], [119] |
| Lepidodendron | [120] |
| Lepidophloios | [121] |
| Asterophyllites, &c. | [122] |
| Calamites (five Figures) | [123]-[125] |
| Ferns of the Coal-formation (six Figures) | [126]-[129] |
| Noeggerathia dispar | [130] |
| Cordaites | [131] |
| Fruits of Cordaites, &c. | [132] |
| Conifers of the Coal-formation (four Species) | [135] |
| Trigonocarpum | [136] |
| Sternbergia | [137] |
| Walchia imbricatula | [138] |
| Foliage of the Jurassic Period | [177] |
| Podozamites | [178] |
| Salisburia | [180] |
| Sequoia | [181] |
| Populus primæva | [191] |
| Stercalia and Laurophyllum | [194] |
| Vegetation of the Cretaceous Period | [195] |
| Platanus | [198] |
| Protophyllum | [199] |
| Magnolia | [200] |
| Liriodendron (two Figures) | [201] |
| Brasenia | [207] |
| Gaylussaccia resinosa | [228] |
| Populus balsamifera | [229] |
| Fucus | [230] |