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cee taking the lead in the Keuper and holding it through the 
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into the Lower Cretaceous. The monocotyledons never held a 
dominant position but increased steadily throughout the Meso- 
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zoic, reaching their highest expression in the palms and their 
‘greatest relative predominance in the Eocene, but probably attain- 
ing their highest absolute development in the Oligocene or Lower 
_ Miocene, The dicotyledons, which, as already shown, made their 
"R observed ——— in the Urgonian, or Lower Cretaceous, 
