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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

Chapter 29: Transcriber’s Notes
By Marie Carmichael Stopes
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This work presents a concise, non-technical survey of the earth's past vegetation, explaining types of fossil plants and coal formation, outlining seven geological plant ages and stages in plant evolution. It compares fine anatomical details of fossil and living plants, notes likenesses and differences, and traces past histories of major groups—flowering plants, gymnosperms, bennettitales, cycads, pteridosperms, ferns, lycopods, horsetails, sphenophyllales, and lower plants. The volume emphasizes how fossils reconstruct ancient landscapes and climates and includes practical guidance on collecting and preserving specimens and a glossary of technical terms.

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Transcriber’s Notes

  • Silently corrected a handful of palpable typos.
  • Moved footnotes to a section immediately preceding the Index, and added an entry for it to the Contents.
  • Slightly reformatted tables to better fit dynamic flow on narrow screens.
  • Conjecturally restored one missing subtopic (“Coal, importance of”) in the Index.
  • In the text versions, delimited text in italics by _underscores_.
  • In the text versions, included filenames of illustrations, for more convenient reference (by another program).