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Excerpt from 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"
I. - Various specimens of Fossil Wood, and fragments of Plants examples of sih'cified Wood III. - Stigmaria, Calamites, and Wood IV. - Fronds of various Fossil Ferns V. - - Different species of Ferns and other Plants. VI. principally Fossil Fruits from the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey VII. - Specimens of the Fruit of a species of Nipas, or Molucca Palm; from the Isle of Sheppey VIII. - Fig11.res of different portions of beautiful silicified Stems of Plants allied to the Arborescent from Chemnitz IX. - Fossil Seed - vessels or (bones of the Lepidodendron X. - - An aquatic Plant (hydatica) m Coal shale XI. - A fine specimen of another species of Hydatica XII. - -a delicate aquatic Plant (myriopkyllz'tes) in Coal shale XIII. Of the Stem of the Calamites mmosus XIV. -. Fragment of Stems of another species of Calamite (calmites dawns) XV. - - Stem of a Calamite very much resembling the Bamboo (calamites pseudo- bambusia) XVI - Another species of Calamite (calamites (wpmximatus) XVII. - Stem of another kind of Calamite (calamites decoratus) XVIII. - Fossil Stems allied to the Pandanus or Yucca (stembergz'a transverse)
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