. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. Fig. 8. Piece of coniferous wood in flint, from the Chalk, Croydon. Drawn from a specimen presented to the British Museum by Mr Murton Holmes. In the side view, shown above in the figure, the position of the wood is shown by the lighter portion, with holes, 6, 6, bored by Teredos or some other wood-eating animal. In the end view, below, the wood is seen as an irregular cylinder w, w, embedded in a matrix of flint. \ Nat. size. The specimen represented in fig. 9 illustrates the almost complete destruction of a piece of wood by
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. Fig. 8. Piece of coniferous wood in flint, from the Chalk, Croydon. Drawn from a specimen presented to the British Museum by Mr Murton Holmes. In the side view, shown above in the figure, the position of the wood is shown by the lighter portion, with holes, 6, 6, bored by Teredos or some other wood-eating animal. In the end view, below, the wood is seen as an irregular cylinder w, w, embedded in a matrix of flint. \ Nat. size. The specimen represented in fig. 9 illustrates the almost complete destruction of a piece of wood by some boring animal. The circular and oval dotted patches represent the filled up cavities made by a Teredo or some similar wood-boring Fig. 9. Piece of wood from the Red Crag of Suffolk, riddled with holes fiUed in with mud. From a specimen in the York Museum. ^ Nat. size. 1 Mantell (44), vol. i. p. 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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