FOSSIL PLANTS AT GENINGEN. 
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No distinct catalogues of plants found in the 
Pliocene, or most recent periods of the Tertiary 
series, have yet been published. 
Freshwater formation of (Eningen, which has been already 
spoken of in our account of fossil fishes. The plants enume- 
rated in this catalogue, were collected during a long series of 
years by the inmates of a monastery near Q^ningen, on the 
dissolution of which they were removed to their present place in 
the Museum of Carlsruhe. It appears by this catalogue that 
the plants of QEningen afford examples of thirty-six species be- 
longing to twenty-five genera of the following families. 
" Families. Genera. 
Polypodiaceae 2 
Equisitacese 1 
Lycopodiacese 1 
Coniferae 2 
Graminese 1 
Najadese 2 
Amentacese 5 
Juglandese 1 
Ebenacesc 1 
Tiliaceac 1 
Acerinese 1 
Rhamneee 1 
Leguminosae 2 
Dicotyledons of 
doubtful families 4 
Species. 
21 
Genera. Species. 
1 r Cryptogam iee, total 4 
iJ 
2 Gymnospermiae 2 
o f Moncotyledons 3 
10 
2 
1 
1 
5 
2 
2 
4J 
2 
3 
Dicotyledons 16 27 
This table shews the great preponderance of Dicotyledonous 
plants in the Flora of (Eningen, and affords a standard of com- 
parison with those of the Brown-coal of other localities in the 
Tertiary series. The greater number of the species found here 
correspond with those in the Brown-coal of the Wetteraw and 
vicinity of Bonn. 
Amid this predominance of dicotyledonous vegetables, not a 
single herbaceous plant has yet been found excepting some frag- 
