Ancient Plants
by Marie Carmichael Stopes
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About this eBook
- Author
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958
- Title
- 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
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QE: Science: Geology
- Subject
- Paleobotany
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43976
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43976
- Release Date
- October 18, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ANCIENT PLANTS — ANCIENT PLANTS
- 2.Preface
- 3.Contents — ANCIENT PLANTS
- 4.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- 5.CHAPTER II VARIOUS KINDS OF FOSSIL PLANTS
- 6.CHAPTER III COAL, THE MOST IMPORTANT OF PLANT REMAINS
- 7.CHAPTER IV THE SEVEN AGES OF PLANT LIFE
- 8.CHAPTER V STAGES IN PLANT EVOLUTION
- 9.CHAPTER VI MINUTE STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL PLANTS—LIKENESSES TO LIVING ONES — Principal Types of Plant Cells
- 10.CHAPTER VII MINUTE STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL PLANTS—DIFFERENCES FROM LIVING ONES
- 11.CHAPTER VIII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES I. Flowering Plants, Angiosperms
- 12.CHAPTER IX PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES II. Higher Gymnosperms
- 13.CHAPTER X PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES III. The Bennettitales
- 14.CHAPTER XI PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES IV. The Cycads
- 15.CHAPTER XII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES V. Pteridosperms
- 16.CHAPTER XIII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VI. The Ferns
- 17.CHAPTER XIV PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VII. The Lycopods
- 18.CHAPTER XV PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VIII. The Horsetails
- 19.CHAPTER XVI PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES IX. Sphenophyllales
- 20.CHAPTER XVII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES X. The Lower Plants
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII FOSSIL PLANTS AS RECORDS OF ANCIENT COUNTRIES
- 22.CHAPTER XIX CONCLUSION
- 23.APPENDIX I LIST OF REQUIREMENTS FOR A COLLECTING EXPEDITION
- 24.APPENDIX II TREATMENT OF SPECIMENS
- 25.APPENDIX III LITERATURE
- 26.GLOSSARY
- 27.FOOTNOTES
- 28.INDEX
- 29.Transcriber’s Notes
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