FOSSIL FRUITS. 149 
The reader will observe that the fossil vegetables hitherto 
described belong, with but few exceptions, to the Carbonife- 
Lien. 44. FossiL FRuITS, 0R SEED-VESSELS; nat. 
Fig. 1.—CarpiIocarPon AcutumM. Snibstone Coal-mine, Leicestershire. | 
la.—One of the above magnified. 
2.—CARPOLITHES BuUCKLANDII. Coralline Oolite, Malton. 
3.—TRIGONOCARPUM OLIVEFORME. Snibstone Colliery. 
4.—TRIGONOCARPUM NOGGERATHI. 
rous flora; and that the remains of Ferns, Calamites, Sigil- 
lariz, and Lepidodendra, compose in a great measure those 
prodigious accumulations of mineral fuel, or coal, which 
supply the luxuries and necessities created by civilization. 
Our review of fossil plants will now assume somewhat of 
a botanical arrangement, and we proceed to notice some of 
the most characteristic vegetable forms of the secondary and 
tertiary formations. We commence our examination with 
those remarkable tribes of gymnosperms, the Cycadacez, 
which comprise the Zamie and Cycadee. 
