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THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



with ArchcBopteris is that which I have named Platyphyl- 

 lum, and which grew on a creeping stem or parasitically 

 on stems of other plants, and had marginal fructification.* 



Fig. 24. — ArchaBoptens Jacksom, Dawson (Maine). An Upper Erian 

 fern, a, b, Pinnules showing venation. 



* " Keports on Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian of 

 Canada," 1871, &c. - » 



