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Ancient Plants: Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of NatureStopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

Name: 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
Author: Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Paleobotany

_Salix_, 83.
  _Sambucus_, 84.
  _Schizoneura_, 173.
  Sclerenchyma, 56, _26_, 59, _34_.
  Scott, 2, 160, 187.
  Secondary wood, development of in fossil members of families now
          lacking it, 72.
  Seeds, series of types from spores to seeds, 75, 76, _52_-_58_.
  — position on the plant, 77, 78.
  — Tertiary impressions of, 80, 81, _60_.
  _Selaginella_, 75, 133, 134.
  — with four spores in a sporangium, 75, _53_.
  _Sequoia_, 86.
  Seward, 187.
  “Shade leaves”, 171.
  Shale, 7, _1_, 11, 24, 25, 36.
  Sieve tubes, 57, _32_.
  _Sigillaria_, 142, 145.
  _Sigillaria_, cast of leaf bases, 9, _2_, 144, _102_.
  — description of, 144.
  Silica, 17.
  Silicified wood, 17, 80, 87.
  Solms Laubach, 2, 187.
  Specimens, treatment of, 184.
  Sphenophyllales, 44, 153.
  — description of, 153.
  — general distribution in time, 177.
  _Sphenophyllum_, 44, 153, 154, 160.
  — cone of, 157, 116.
  — _fertile_, 158.
  — impression of foliage, 154, _112_.
  — _plurifoliatum_, 153.
  — sporangia of, 158, _117_.
  — stem anatomy, 155, _113_, 156, _114_.
  — stem in coal ball, 20.
  — wood of, 156, _114_, _115_.
  _Sphenopteris_, leaf impression, 11, _5_.
  — foliage of Pteridosperms, 115, _77_.
  Sporangium of ferns, 67, _45_.
  — of lycopods, 67, _46_.
  — of pteridophytes, 75, _52_, _53_, _54_.
  Spores, germinating, in fossil sporangia, 68, _47_.
  — peculiar structures among palæozoic examples of, 74.
  — series of types from “spores” to “seeds”, 75, 76, _52_-_58_.
  — tetrads of, 75, _52_, _53_, _54_.
  Sporophyll, 75, _52_, _53_, _54_.
  _Stangeria_, 110.
  Stele, modifications of, 62, _36_-_42_.
  Stems, external similarity in living and fossil, 60.
  _Sternbergia_, cast of, 10, _4_.
  — pith cast of _Cordaites_, 93.
  _Stigmaria_, 69, 142, 143, 144, 145.
  — rootlet of, 143, _101_.
  Stomates, 54, _23_.
  — in fossil epidermis, 14, _8_.
  Stoneworts, 163.
  Synclines, 23.


  Taxeæ, 88, 90.
  — comparison of fructification with that of Cordaiteæ, 95.
  — description of, 92.
  Taxeæ, fleshy seeds of, 89.
  _Taxodium_, 86.
  _Taxus_, 82.
  Time, divisions of geological time, 34.
  Tracheides for water storage, 56, 30.
  Tree-ferns, 130.
  _Trigonocarpus_, 11, 76, 82, 122, _84_.
  — once supposed to be a Monocotyledon, 82.
  — probably the seed of Medullosa, 121.
  _Tubicaulis_, 127, _89_.


  Unexplored world, 3.
  Unicellular plants, 47, _17_.
  — — division of cells in, 47, 48, _18_.


  “Vascular bundles”, relation of to steles, 65, _42_.
  — tissue, 57, _31_, _32_, _33_, 59.
  — — continued growth of, 65, _43_.
  — — importance in plant anatomy, 61 et seq.
  _Viburnum_, 84, 85.


  Watts, 187.
  Westphalia, 19.
  Wieland, 2, 102, 187.
  Williamson, 2, 187.
  _Williamsonia_, 104.
  Wood, cells composing, 57, _31_.
  — centrifugal development of, 97, _65_.
  — centripetal development of, 97, _65_.
  — parenchyma, 57, _31_.
  — silicified, 17, 80, 87.
  — solid rings of formed by cambium, 66, _44_.
  — vessels of Angiosperms, 58.

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Ancient Plants: Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of NatureStopes, Marie Carmichael

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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

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

Paleobotany

_Salix_, 83.
  _Sambucus_, 84.
  _Schizoneura_, 173.
  Sclerenchyma, 56, _26_, 59, _34_.
  Scott, 2, 160, 187.
  Secondary wood, development of in fossil members of families now
          lacking it, 72.
  Seeds, series of types from spores to seeds, 75, 76, _52_-_58_.
  — position on the plant, 77, 78.
  — Tertiary impressions of, 80, 81, _60_.
  _Selaginella_, 75, 133, 134.
  — with four spores in a sporangium, 75, _53_.
  _Sequoia_, 86.
  Seward, 187.
  “Shade leaves”, 171.
  Shale, 7, _1_, 11, 24, 25, 36.
  Sieve tubes, 57, _32_.
  _Sigillaria_, 142, 145.
  _Sigillaria_, cast of leaf bases, 9, _2_, 144, _102_.
  — description of, 144.
  Silica, 17.
  Silicified wood, 17, 80, 87.
  Solms Laubach, 2, 187.
  Specimens, treatment of, 184.
  Sphenophyllales, 44, 153.
  — description of, 153.
  — general distribution in time, 177.
  _Sphenophyllum_, 44, 153, 154, 160.
  — cone of, 157, 116.
  — _fertile_, 158.
  — impression of foliage, 154, _112_.
  — _plurifoliatum_, 153.
  — sporangia of, 158, _117_.
  — stem anatomy, 155, _113_, 156, _114_.
  — stem in coal ball, 20.
  — wood of, 156, _114_, _115_.
  _Sphenopteris_, leaf impression, 11, _5_.
  — foliage of Pteridosperms, 115, _77_.
  Sporangium of ferns, 67, _45_.
  — of lycopods, 67, _46_.
  — of pteridophytes, 75, _52_, _53_, _54_.
  Spores, germinating, in fossil sporangia, 68, _47_.
  — peculiar structures among palæozoic examples of, 74.
  — series of types from “spores” to “seeds”, 75, 76, _52_-_58_.
  — tetrads of, 75, _52_, _53_, _54_.
  Sporophyll, 75, _52_, _53_, _54_.
  _Stangeria_, 110.
  Stele, modifications of, 62, _36_-_42_.
  Stems, external similarity in living and fossil, 60.
  _Sternbergia_, cast of, 10, _4_.
  — pith cast of _Cordaites_, 93.
  _Stigmaria_, 69, 142, 143, 144, 145.
  — rootlet of, 143, _101_.
  Stomates, 54, _23_.
  — in fossil epidermis, 14, _8_.
  Stoneworts, 163.
  Synclines, 23.


  Taxeæ, 88, 90.
  — comparison of fructification with that of Cordaiteæ, 95.
  — description of, 92.
  Taxeæ, fleshy seeds of, 89.
  _Taxodium_, 86.
  _Taxus_, 82.
  Time, divisions of geological time, 34.
  Tracheides for water storage, 56, 30.
  Tree-ferns, 130.
  _Trigonocarpus_, 11, 76, 82, 122, _84_.
  — once supposed to be a Monocotyledon, 82.
  — probably the seed of Medullosa, 121.
  _Tubicaulis_, 127, _89_.


  Unexplored world, 3.
  Unicellular plants, 47, _17_.
  — — division of cells in, 47, 48, _18_.


  “Vascular bundles”, relation of to steles, 65, _42_.
  — tissue, 57, _31_, _32_, _33_, 59.
  — — continued growth of, 65, _43_.
  — — importance in plant anatomy, 61 et seq.
  _Viburnum_, 84, 85.


  Watts, 187.
  Westphalia, 19.
  Wieland, 2, 102, 187.
  Williamson, 2, 187.
  _Williamsonia_, 104.
  Wood, cells composing, 57, _31_.
  — centrifugal development of, 97, _65_.
  — centripetal development of, 97, _65_.
  — parenchyma, 57, _31_.
  — silicified, 17, 80, 87.
  — solid rings of formed by cambium, 66, _44_.
  — vessels of Angiosperms, 58.

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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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