. The testimony of the rocks; . LEPIDODENDRON OBOVATUM. (Nat, size.) attempting to call up in fancy the old Carboniferous forests, 1 1 HISTORY OF PLANTS. 69 he has to dwell on this peculiar feature as one of the most Fig, 34, Fig. ZAMIA FENEONis. (Portland Oolite.)prominent, and to see, in the multitude of trunks darkened 70 THE PAL^ONTOLOGICAL above by clouds of foliage, that rise upon him in the pros-pect, the slim columns of an elder Alhambra, roughenedwith arabesque tracery and exquisite filagree work. In the Oolitic flora we find a few peculiar features intro-duced. The Cycadese, — a
. The testimony of the rocks; . LEPIDODENDRON OBOVATUM. (Nat, size.) attempting to call up in fancy the old Carboniferous forests, 1 1 HISTORY OF PLANTS. 69 he has to dwell on this peculiar feature as one of the most Fig, 34, Fig. ZAMIA FENEONis. (Portland Oolite.)prominent, and to see, in the multitude of trunks darkened 70 THE PAL^ONTOLOGICAL above by clouds of foliage, that rise upon him in the pros-pect, the slim columns of an elder Alhambra, roughenedwith arabesque tracery and exquisite filagree work. In the Oolitic flora we find a few peculiar features intro-duced. The Cycadese, — a family of plants allied to theferns on the one hand, and to the conifers on the other, andwhich in their general aspect not a little resemble stuntedpalms, — appear in this flora for the first time. Its coniferousgenera, too, receive great accessions to their numbers, and Fig. 37.
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