ANCIENT PLANTS 



BEING A SIMPLE ACCOUNT OF THE 

 PAST VEGETATION OF THE EARTH 

 AND OF THE RECENT IMPORTANT 

 DISCOVERIES MADE IN THIS REALM 

 OF NATURE STUDY 



BY 



MARIE G: STOPES, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S. 



Lecturer in Fossil Botany, Manchester University 

 Author of " The Study of Plant Life for Young People " 



LONDON 



BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.G. 



GLASGOW AND BOMBAY 

 1910 



