90 Reign of Angiosperms. 



longing to genera still existing, but among which the Cupres- 

 sineae appear to predominate, especially if we admit as posi- 

 tively belonging to this family the various fruits of the Isle 

 of Sheppey, which M. Bowerbank has described under the 

 name of Cupressinites, and of which M. Endlicher has formed 

 the genera Callitrites, Frenelites, and Solenostrobus. If 

 these fruits really belong to European vegetation, they indi- 

 cate very peculiar generic forms, probably now wholly ex- 

 tinct. 



"3a?, The existence of many large species of palm, equally 

 shewn by the occurrence of their leaves and stems. 



" 2. Miocene Epoch. — This Eocene or middle epoch of the 

 Tertiary formations appears to me to comprehend the follow- 

 ing localities among those which have furnished materials for 

 the study of the vegetation of the Tertiary period : Is^, In the 

 environs of Paris, the superior sandstones, or those of Fontaine- 

 bleau and the Meulieres, or Buhrstone, which crown our coasts; 

 2d, The sandstone, with impressions, in the environs of Mans 

 and Angers, and probably those of Bergerac, in the depart- 

 ment of the Dordogne ; ^d, A part of the Tertiary formations 

 of Auvergne, and particularly those of the mountain Gergovia, 

 formations which, by their impressions, appear more ancient 

 than those of Menat, but which perhaps all belong to different 

 stages of the Pliocene epoch ; 4M, The fresh-water forma- 

 tions of Armissan, near Narbonne, the Gypsum of Aix in 

 Provence, the Lignites of Provence, whose vegetable fossils 

 are scarcely known ; finally, the Lacustrine formations, rich 

 in the wood of palms, and in stems of Monocotyledons, 

 from Upper Provence, near Apt and Castellane ; bth, A 

 part of the Tertiary formations of Italy, and particu- 

 larly those of Superga, near Turin ; 6M, The Mollasse of 

 Switzerland, with its Lignites, at Lausanne, Koepfnac, and 

 Horgen, containing the remains of palms ; 7M, The Lignites of 

 the banks of the Rhine near Cologne and Bonn, at Friesborf, 

 Liblar, &c., sometimes enclosing wood of palms, and those of 

 Wetteravia at Nidda, near Frankfort, and other places ; as 

 well as those of Weisner near Cassel, which all appear to be 

 of the same epoch, although those of Wetteravia, by the 

 abundance of certain genera of Dicotyledons, such a^juglans 



