The Geological History of Plants

15. FUNGI: Their Nature, Influences, Uses, etc. By M. C. Cooke, M. A., LL. D. Edited by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M. A., F.L. S. With 109 Illustrations. $1.50.

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 R...

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 th...

Oldest of all the formations known to geologists, and representing perhaps the earliest rocks produced after our earth had ceased to be a molten mass, are the hard, crystalline,...

In the last chapter we were occupied with the comparatively few and obscure remains of plants entombed in the oldest geological formations. We now ascend to a higher plane, that...

Ascending from the Erian to the Carboniferous system, so called because it contains the greatest deposits of anthracite and bituminous coal, we are still within the limits of th...

With reference to the classification of Palæozoic ferns, this has hitherto been quite arbitrary, being based on mere form and venation of fronds, but much advance has recently b...

Great physical changes occurred at the close of the Carboniferous age. The thick beds of sediment that had been accumulating in long lines along the primitive continents had wei...

It is a remarkable fact in geological chronology that the culmination of the vegetable kingdom antedates that of the animal. The placental mammals, the highest group of the anim...

It may be well to begin this chapter with a sketch of the general physical and geological conditions of the period which was characterised by the advent and culmination of the d...

The origination of the successive floras which have occupied the northern hemisphere in geological time, not, as one might at first sight suppose, in the sunny climes of the sou...