LATER CRETACEOUS AND KAINOZOIC. 



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ami leaves of carices and grasses, so that these i)lants, now 

 so importiint to the nourishment of man and his com- 

 panion animals, were already rei)resented. 



Fio. 70. — Vegetation of Later Cretnceoua. Exogens and palms. (Atlor 



Saporta.) 



But the great feature of the time was its dicotyle- 

 donous forests, and I have only to enumerate the genera 

 supposed to be represented in order to show the richness 

 of the time in plants of this type. It may be necessary 

 to explain here that th generic names used are mostly 

 based on leaves, and consequently cannot be held as being 



