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GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



On the Fossil Plants /o^«^(/ in Amber. 

 By Professor Goeppert. 



[Berlin Academy, Bulletin, 1853, pp. 450-47G ; and Leonhard u. Bronn'sN. Jahrb. 

 f. Min. u.s.w. 1853, pp. 745-749.J 



Since Prof. Goeppert recognized the Taxodites duhius, of Stern- 

 feerg, which occurs abundantly in the plant-bed at Schosnitz, Silesia, 

 as the Taxodium distichum. Rich., now living in the southern parts 

 of the United States and in Mexico, and found also some fossil Planes 

 from Schosnitz to be identical with living species, thus pointing out 

 the identity of some tertiary plants with the living, he has had the 

 opportunity of examining a collection of 570 specimens of Amber, 

 containing plant-remains, belonging to M. Menge, of Dantzic, and 

 30 specimens bequeathed by M. Berendt. With these the author has 

 been enabled to raise the number of the species of plants in the Amber 

 Flora from 44 to 163 ; of which only Libocedrites salicornioides 

 and Taxodites EuropcBus occur fossil out of the Amber ; and 30 are 

 identical with existing species. The constitution of the Amber Flora, 

 as at present known, is shown in the following table*. 



Number of Number identical with 

 Species. existing Species. 



Plants cellulares. 



I. Fungi 16 4, certainly; perhaps, all. 



II. Algffi 11 



r 6 or 7 (with species on the 



III. Lichenes V2 < K. and W. coasts of 



L Arctic America). 



IV. Muscihepatici: "I39 ^^j^ens. 11 11 



Jungermannieae J '■ 

 V. MuscifVondosi 1!) | ^ '^--i^ •■-^taiuly; perhaps, 



Plants vasculares. 

 III. Cryptogamae (Acotylcdones). 

 Filices. 



Pecopteris Humboldtana, G'opp. 

 8f Belir. 

 * For the lists of genera and species, see the works above referred to. 

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