A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . minous wood, containing Mellite, or Honey-stone (honigstein of Werner),the yellow crystallized substance in the middle of the specimen. It is a fossil resin,allied to amber : from Thuringia. Fig. 3. Carbonized coniferous wood, from the so-called Bovey Coal formation of Devonshire. Fig, 4. A piece of calcareous wood, showing very distinctly the ligneous structure on the surface. Fig. 5. Lignite, or carbonized wood, in cl
A pictorial atlas of fossil remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology." . minous wood, containing Mellite, or Honey-stone (honigstein of Werner),the yellow crystallized substance in the middle of the specimen. It is a fossil resin,allied to amber : from Thuringia. Fig. 3. Carbonized coniferous wood, from the so-called Bovey Coal formation of Devonshire. Fig, 4. A piece of calcareous wood, showing very distinctly the ligneous structure on the surface. Fig. 5. Lignite, or carbonized wood, in clay; the cracks or fissures in the wood are filled upwith white calcareous spar. Specimens of this kind are common in many argil-laceous strata, as well as in limestone. Fig. 6. A fragment of shale, covered with the imprints of the leaf-stalks that have been is a species of Lepidodendron. See description of Plate XXVI. Fig. 7. This fossil vegetable is part of the stem of a tree ; and possibly of a species of Sigillaria. Fig. 8. Portion of a nodule of ironstone, enclosing some pinnules or leaflets of a beautiful fern(Neuropteris) : from Coalbrook Dale, « FOSSIL FLORA. 21 PLATE 11. Petrified Woods. Fig. 1. Silicified bituminized wood; probably from New Holland. Fig. 2. Silicified root of a coniferous tree, {RhizoUthes, of the early collectors,) resemblingin structure that of the larch.—Mr. Parkinson. Fig. 3. A similar example of silicified bituminous wood, or root. Fig. 4. Fossil coniferous wood, a longitudinal section. Fig. 5. Another section of the same fossil wood. Fig. 6. Petrified larch-tree, from Mount Krappe in Hungary. Fig. 7. Silicified bituminous wood. Fig. 8. Jasperized wood, resembling in structure that of the hazel.—Mr. Parkinson. Fig. 9. Silicified coniferous wood; apparently a dried and withered mass, before it underwentpetrifaction. Fig. 10. Silicified wood, having a cavity lined with mammillated chalcedony; appearing as ifthe silex had pe
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