This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ..." coal-pipes," as they are styled, are therefore much dreaded. 4. The Lepidodendm (scaly-stems)--the club-mosses of that time--were lofty trees, sixty feet high, with pitted trunks and branches. The scars are arranged diagonally or in a quincunx order. 5. Conifers, or cone-bearing trees, were not infrequent, with their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ..." coal-pipes," as they are styled, are therefore much dreaded. 4. The Lepidodendm (scaly-stems)--the club-mosses of that time--were lofty trees, sixty feet high, with pitted trunks and branches. The scars are arranged diagonally or in a quincunx order. 5. Conifers, or cone-bearing trees, were not infrequent, with their boughs laden with fruit. Such was the vegetation which flourished in the Carboniferous Age, and which we now use to warm and light our houses and to drive our engines. II. ANIMALS.--In a coal mine near the Bay of Fundy, in the stumps of two sigillarise, there have been found the remains of several small reptiles bearing frog-like and lizard-like forms, a centipede, and the shell of a land snail. These little creatures had probably crept into these hollow trees for shelter, and were overtaken by the convulsions which overwhelmed them. Several larger fossil reptiles have since been identified. Two or three species of insects, with broad gauze wings, like the dragon-fly, have also been discovered. Remains of fishes, Calamites cistii. 2 Archimedes W0rthii Asterophyllites cquisetiformis.-4. Actinocrinus chr vstii. Sigllaria attennata. 6. Pentremites Godoni. Pentremitm p riformis. 8. Pentremites Koninckana. 8;. 6, 7 and 8 are varieties of Crinoidsfl brachiopods, crinoids and corals are abundant. (See Fig. 70.) SCENIC DESCRIP'l'lON.--I11 Fig" 71 is all 31 tempt to reproduce the characteristic features of a carboniferous landscape. On the right are two naked trunks of a lepidodendron and sigillaria (whose foliage is entirely unknown); between them is a tall tree-fern with its umbrella-like top. At the foot of these great trees are smaller ferns, and, in front, a stigmaria, whose curiously dotted and branching roots reach out into th...
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