PHANEROGAMIA 



become extinct (e.g. Dryophyllum, a supposed ancestral form of the Oaks) are 

 wanting even in the Eocene. From the Miocene onwards the specific forms are in 

 part identical with those now living, and in the Quaternary strata all the remains 

 are of existing species. The general character of the Tertiary flora in Europe was, 

 however, very different from that of the present day. It had the aspect of the 

 flora of a much warmer region, and (as in the case of the -Gymnosperms) contained 

 forms which now exist only in distant regions. 



2 Y 



