uity of Fossils. 2/1 



mens that were in their time not only beautiful in 

 sculpture, but in color. In addition to the elaborate 

 finish of the Ammonites, we have seen some in 

 which the beaut v of the shell remained as per: 

 as in the pearly nautilus just taken from the S 



Among the plants there probably was little beauty 

 of flower, but the leaf and every part needed for 

 those earlv tribes of plants, artistically 



finished as the plants that most delight us by their 

 beauty of outline. 



JUicklai. aphic account of the rich pro- 



fusion of beauty in the petrified plants of the Bohe- 

 mian coal-mi: 



>Uage 



upon the paint. f Italian : bear no 



comparison with the beauh insion of extinct 



etable forms, with which the galleries of tl, 

 ruclive coal-mii overhung. The roof is 



. with a ca \\ ry en- 



riched with festoon- graceful ilung in 



wild, irregular \ very portion of its 



surface. The effect is heightened by the contr 

 of the coal-black color of the plants with the light 

 groundwork of the rock to which the}' are attached. 

 The spectator feels himself transported, as if by 

 enchantment, into the f f another world ; he 



beholds tre in and character now unknown 



upon the surface of the earth, presented to his 

 senses almost in the beauty and vigor of their pri- 

 meval life ; their scaly stems and bending branches, 

 with their delicate apparatus of foliage, are all spread 



