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." . |te;(ffc->-j^. /2:^t/^.M^. FOSSIL ILOBA. 69 PLATE XXVI. Lepidodendron, or Scaly-tree. {Aphyllum asperum, Rough Aphyllum, of Artis.) The Lepidodendra (Scaly-trees) are a tribe of plants whose remains abound in the Coalformation, and rival in number and magnitude the Calamites and Sigillarice previously name is derived from the imbricated or scaly appearance of the surface, occasioned by thelittle angular
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." . |te;(ffc->-j^. /2:^t/^.M^. FOSSIL ILOBA. 69 PLATE XXVI. Lepidodendron, or Scaly-tree. {Aphyllum asperum, Rough Aphyllum, of Artis.) The Lepidodendra (Scaly-trees) are a tribe of plants whose remains abound in the Coalformation, and rival in number and magnitude the Calamites and Sigillarice previously name is derived from the imbricated or scaly appearance of the surface, occasioned by thelittle angular scars left by the separation of the leaves. Some of these trees have been foundalmost entire, from their roots to the topmost branches. One specimen, forty feet high, andthirteen feet in diameter at the base, and divided towards the summit into fifteen or twentybranches, was discovered in the Jarrow coal-mine, near Newcastle. The foliage of these trees consists of simple linear leaves, spirally arranged around the stem,and which appear to have been shed from the base of the tree with age. The markings producedby the attachment of the leaves are never obliterated, and the twigs and branc
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