. The testimony of the rocks; . dant. This fern hasbeen detected also in the UpperOld Red of our own country,mingled with fragments of con-temporary calamites. With,however, these earliest plants ofthe land yet known, there occursa true wood, which belonged, asshown by its structure, to agymnospermous or poly cot yle-donous tree, and which we findassociated with remains of Coc-costeus and Diplacanthus. And here let me remark, thatthe facts of Palseontologicalscience compel us to blend, insome degree, with the classifica-tion of our modern botanists,that of the botanists of an earliertime. In a
. The testimony of the rocks; . dant. This fern hasbeen detected also in the UpperOld Red of our own country,mingled with fragments of con-temporary calamites. With,however, these earliest plants ofthe land yet known, there occursa true wood, which belonged, asshown by its structure, to agymnospermous or poly cot yle-donous tree, and which we findassociated with remains of Coc-costeus and Diplacanthus. And here let me remark, thatthe facts of Palseontologicalscience compel us to blend, insome degree, with the classifica-tion of our modern botanists,that of the botanists of an earliertime. In a passage already quoted, Solomon is said tohave discoursed of plants, from the cedar tree that isin Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall,— from the great tree to the minute herb; and Cowleyrose, in his metrical treatise, as has been shoA\Ti, fromdescriptions of herbs and flowers to descriptions of fruitand forest trees. And as in every age in which thereexisted a terrestrial vegetation there seem to ha^c been. CYCLOPTETIIS HIBERNICUS. (Nat. size.) HISTORY OF PLANTS. 43 trees as certainly as herbs, the palseontological bot-antist finds that he has, m consequence, to range his classes, Fig. 3.
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