. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 10 HISTORICAL SKETCH. [CH. honourable title of a founder of modern Palaeobotany'." If we look back through a few decades, and peruse the pages of Lindley and Button's classic work^ on the Fossil flora of Great Britain, a book which is indispensable to foSsil botanists, and read the description of such a genus as Sigillaria or Stigmaria; or if we extend our retrospect to an earlier period and read Woodward's description of an unusually good specimen of a Lepidodendron, and finally take stock of our present knowledge of suc
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 10 HISTORICAL SKETCH. [CH. honourable title of a founder of modern Palaeobotany'." If we look back through a few decades, and peruse the pages of Lindley and Button's classic work^ on the Fossil flora of Great Britain, a book which is indispensable to foSsil botanists, and read the description of such a genus as Sigillaria or Stigmaria; or if we extend our retrospect to an earlier period and read Woodward's description of an unusually good specimen of a Lepidodendron, and finally take stock of our present knowledge of such plants, we realise what enormous progress has been made in palaeo- botanical studies. Lindley and Hutton, in the preface to the first volume of the Flora, claim to have demonstrated that both Sigillaria and Stigmaria were plants with " the highest degree of organization, such as Gactaeae, or Euphorbiaceae, or even Asclepiadeae"; Woodward describes his Lepidodendron (Fig. 1) as " an ironstone, black and flat, and wrought over one surface very finely, with a strange cancellated work"." Thanks largely to. Fig. 1. Four leaf-cushions of a Lepidodendron. Drawn from a specunen in the Woodward Collection, Cambridge. (Nat. size.) the work of Binney, Carruthers, Hooker, Williamson, and to the labours of continental botanists, we are at present almost as familiar with Lepidodendron and several other Coal-Measure 1 Solms-Laubach (95), p. 442. 3 Woodward (1729), Pt. ii. p. 106. Lindley and Hutton (31).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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