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THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



On the stems so constructed were placed long and 

 often broad many-nerved leaves, with rows of stomata or 

 breathing-pores, and attached by somewhat broad bases 

 to the stem and branches. The fruit consisted of racemes, 

 or clusters of nutlets, which seem to have been provided 



Fio. 59. — Fruits of Cordaites and Taxine Conifers fcoal-forraation. Nova 

 Scotia.) A, Antholithei^ nqunmoswi (two thirds), b, A. rliohaocurpi 

 (two thirds). ]i>, Curpel restored, o, A. (t/iinoKiw (natural size). 

 I), Trigonofarpum inttrnwilinm. e, T. JVonfrtjenit/iii. k, T. avdla- 

 niim. o, Jihabdocnrpxis insiijnid, reduced, n, AntholUhes pijgma'us, 

 I, Cardiomrpum fuitans. k, Cai'dincarpitm hi»ectiim. i., Sporangites 

 papilluiay lycopoiliuceous macrosporoB (natural feize and raa;j;niflcd). 



