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EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.



List of the Names of the Plants and Animals, represented in Pl. 1. to denote the prevailing Types of Vegetable and Animal Life, during the formation of the three great divisions of stratified Rocks.


REFERENCES.

r. recent, f. fossil. Ad. B. Adolphe Brongniart. L. Lindley. Ag. Agassiz. P. Page of Vol. I.


Remains in Transition Strata.


LAND PLANTS.

1. Araucaria. Norfolk Island Pine. r. & f. P. 364.

2. Equisetum. r. & f. P. 346.

3. Calamites nodosus. f. (L. Pl. 16.)

4. Asterophillites comosa. f. (L. 108.)

5. Asterophyllites foliosa. f. (L. 25.)

6. Aspidium. r. Pecopteris. f.

7. Cyathea glauca, Tree Fern. r. (Ad. B. Hist. Veg. Foss. Pl. 38.) P. 349.

8. Osmunda. r.[1] Neuropteris. f.

9. Lycopodiurn cernuum. r. (from Mirbel.) P. 350.

10. Lycopodiurn alopecuroides. r. (from Mirbel.) P. 350.

11. Lcpidodendron Sternbergii. f.

12. Lepidodendron gracile? f.

13. Flabelliform Palm. r. (from Mirbel.) Palmacites. f.


MARINE ANIMALS AND PLANTS.

14. Acanthodes. f. Ag.

15. Catopterus. f. Ag.

16. Amblypterus. f. Ag.

17. Orodus, extinct Shark, f. (imaginary restoration.)

  1. ↑ An error in this figure represents the fructification as branching from the tallest frond, instead of rising by a separate rachis from the root.
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