CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



graphically, is a plant (Archaeopterh) whose classific place 

 is uncertain, for we cannot yet be sure whether it is a 



true fern or a seed 

 fern. 



During the re- 

 mainder of Palae- 

 ozoic time the ter- 

 restrial vegetation 

 consisted e s s e n - 

 tially of the coal 

 plants — club 

 mosses as large as 

 trees, with woody 

 stems and complex 

 reproductive struc- 

 t u r e , tree - like 

 horsetails, a great 

 variety of seed 

 ferns, some ances- 

 tral to the later 

 cycads, and trees 

 like the modern 

 ginkgo. The most 

 abundant of the 

 latter were tall 

 trees, somewhat 

 like modern coni- 

 fers but with a 

 larger pith in the 

 columnar trunk 

 Fig. 2. — Restoration of Psilophy- ^iwd laree leaves 



ton, an early Devonian terrestrial i-i i r 



plant showing many features sug- like those of a corn 



gestive of algal ancestry. plant. These had 



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