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." . irface of Fig. 3, showing the cof the tree, -ys natural Fig. 6. STEM OF A SIGILLARIA BROKEN OFF CLOSE TO THE ROOTS, only a few irregular cicatrices, of three or four inches in length, converging at the apex ; tliestructure, arrangement, and number of the tap-roots, as well as the horizontal ramifications, aresimilar to those in Fig. 5. This fossil clearly explains the nature of the dom(;-t:/iaped plantfigured in
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." . irface of Fig. 3, showing the cof the tree, -ys natural Fig. 6. STEM OF A SIGILLARIA BROKEN OFF CLOSE TO THE ROOTS, only a few irregular cicatrices, of three or four inches in length, converging at the apex ; tliestructure, arrangement, and number of the tap-roots, as well as the horizontal ramifications, aresimilar to those in Fig. 5. This fossil clearly explains the nature of the dom(;-t:/iaped plantfigured in the Fossil Flora of Great Britain. The roots of the preceding fossils repeatedly ramify as their distance from tlie stemincreases, and ultimately terminate in broad flattened points. The whole of the spreading rootsof these trees (the Sigillarics) cover only an area of thirty square feet each; whilst those of theLepidodendron (Fig. 1), whose stem is only two or three inches larger in diameter, covereda space of two hundred square feet. Since it is well known, from numerous examples, that the The figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and the descriptions, are from the paper of Richard Brown, Esq., published in the Journal of flieGeological Society of
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