Outlines of Geology Intended As a Popular Treatise On the Most Interesting Part
Outlines of Geology Intended As a Popular Treatise On the Most Interesting Part
J L John Lee Comstock
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Plants of the fern kind, in some parts of Europe, attained the height of forty or fifty feet ; and the aborescent club-mosses were sixty or seventy feet high. No plants of these tribes, at the present day, ever attain one fourth of these sizes. ) Second. " That in the higher strata, a great variety of fossil vegetables exist, which, for the most part, appear to belong to similar tribes of plants, if not in species, at least in genera, to vegetables which still inhabit the hot- test regions of t...he earth ; nor is it probable that they have been transported to the places where they are found in Europe, from such climates, since their most delicate parts are uninjured. " It is therefore, reasonable to suppose, that since the growth of these vegetables, the climate of Europe has suffered a great change. The Count Sternberg, author of a splendid work, the " Botanical and Geological Flora, " of the le Ancient world, * Plants with oae Cotyledon, as wheat, Indian corn, and the grasses. t Polypodies and Brakes.
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