Introduction to the Study of Palæontological Botany

"The authors of Fossil Floras, however able or accomplished they may be, have often to found their genera and species, and to frame their restorations, when they attempt these,...

[Sidenote: Fig. 96. _Acer trilobatum_, a three-lobed palmate leaf, like that of the Maple, with the lobes unequal, inciso-dentate, the lateral ones spreading, found at Œningen....

According to Carruthers the Equisetaceæ are represented in Britain by the two genera Calamites found in primary beds, and Equisetum found in secondary rocks and living at the pr...

Sigillaria (Plate IV. Figs. 1 and 2) is perhaps the most important plant in the coal formation. The name is derived from sigillum, a seal, to indicate the seal-like markings in...

In this reign the Acrogenous species are less numerous; the Gymnosperms almost equal them in number, and ordinarily surpass them in frequency. There are two periods in this reig...

Forbes, on Tertiary Leaf-Beds in the Isle of Mull, discovered by the Duke of Argyll, F.G.S., with a note on the Vegetable Remains from Ardtun Head, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond...

Mr. Carruthers states that the frond-stalk of this fern is thick, of considerable length, and clothed with large scales, which form a dense covering at the somewhat enlarged bas...

This polisher must be turned quite flat and smoothed by a plane, as the willow, from its softness, is peculiarly difficult to turn. It is also of consequence to remark that both...

The subject of Fossil Botany or Palæophytology has formed a part of the Course of Botany in the University of Edinburgh for the last twenty-five years, and the amount of time de...

[8] In giving names to fossil Ferns, the Greek word πτερίς, meaning a Fern, is often used with a prefix indicating some character in the form of the leaves, or stem, or fructifi...