Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the Past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in this Realm of Nature
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ANCIENT PLANTS
Preface
Contents
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II VARIOUS KINDS OF FOSSIL PLANTS
CHAPTER III COAL, THE MOST IMPORTANT OF PLANT REMAINS
CHAPTER IV THE SEVEN AGES OF PLANT LIFE
CHAPTER V STAGES IN PLANT EVOLUTION
CHAPTER VI MINUTE STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL PLANTS—LIKENESSES TO LIVING ONES
Principal Types of Plant Cells
CHAPTER VII MINUTE STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL PLANTS—DIFFERENCES FROM LIVING ONES
CHAPTER VIII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES I. Flowering Plants, Angiosperms
CHAPTER IX PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES II. Higher Gymnosperms
CHAPTER X PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES III. The Bennettitales
CHAPTER XI PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES IV. The Cycads
CHAPTER XII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES V. Pteridosperms
CHAPTER XIII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VI. The Ferns
CHAPTER XIV PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VII. The Lycopods
CHAPTER XV PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VIII. The Horsetails
CHAPTER XVI PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES IX. Sphenophyllales
CHAPTER XVII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES X. The Lower Plants
CHAPTER XVIII FOSSIL PLANTS AS RECORDS OF ANCIENT COUNTRIES
CHAPTER XIX CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I LIST OF REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLECTING EXPEDITION
APPENDIX II TREATMENT OF SPECIMENS
APPENDIX III LITERATURE
GLOSSARY
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
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