THE FLORA OF THE EARLY MESOZOIC. 



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As we ascend, however, in the Mesozoic, we find new 

 and higher types. Even within the Jurassic epoch, the 

 next in succession to the Trias, there are clear indica- 

 tions of the presence of the endogens, in species allied to 





FIG. 64. Jurassic vegetation. Cycads and pines. (After Saporta.) 



the screw-pines and grasses ; and the palms appear a 

 little later, while a few exogenous trees have left their 

 remains in the Lower Cretaceous, and in the Middle and 

 Upper Cretaceous these higher plants come in abund- 

 antly and in generic forms still extant, so that the dawn 

 of the modern flora belongs to the Middle and Upper 



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