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[Plates III., IV., and V.] 



The Tertiary floras which we find represented most abundantly on 

 the continent of Europe are of Upper Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and 

 Pliocene age. These are all posterior to our Bagshot, the age during 

 which, in Great Britain and Ireland, the conditions necessary to preserve 

 extensive assortments of forest vegetation ceased to exist. These precise 

 conditions, whatever they may be, seem to have rolled like a vast wave 

 from north-west to south and east, leaving its trail in innumerable fossil 

 floras scattered over a belt extending from the Baltic, through Germany, 

 Bohemia, and the Alps, to the Mediterranean littoral. 



In Great Britain and Ireland the Eocenes, from their base upward, 

 whether sedimentary or volcanic, are continually intercalated with fluvia- 



