LATER CRETACEOUS AND KAINOZOIO. 



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and leaves of oarices and grasses, so that these plants, now 

 so important to the nourishment of man and his com- 

 panion animals, were already represented. 



Fie. 70.— Vegetation of Later Cretaceous. Exogens and palms. (After 

 Saporta.) 



But the great feature of the time was its dicotyle- 

 donous forests, and I hare 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 the generic names used are mostly 

 based on leaves, and consequently cannot be held as being 



