Dr Martius on Antediluvian Plants. ^81 
vdity, arising from the air and their own putrefaction, had afforded 
a suitable retreat to many plants fond of marshy and shady situa- 
tions, such as the Scitamineas and various genera of grasses and 
ferns. But I do not wish to court the vain support of opinion, and 
shall rest satisfied with having gained your concurrence in re- 
gard to the judgment which I have formed as to the similarity 
existing between the parts of those antediluvian, and still living, 
vegetables which have formed the subject of the present essay. 
It is only necessary to observe, that these petrified vegetables 
have undoubtedly lived in the same countries in which they are 
now found, and have not been transported from remote places 
by floods, and buried in ruins of various kinds. But that those 
formations, to which we give the name of Black Coal (Schwarz- 
kohlen-formationen), have derived their origin from ages much 
more remote than those in which the beds of Brown Coal 
(Braunkohlen formationen) were deposited, is also proved by the 
vegetables which occur in the latter, and which, for. a great part, 
exhibit leaves, fruits, and woods, of modern plants, and especial- 
ly natives of the north of Europe. On this subject, should the 
present essay be honoured with your approbation, I propose 
to speak at another opportunity. 
-Art. IX. — Geological Distribution of* the Fossil Organic Re-^ 
mains enumerated by Baron Von Schlotheim, arranged by 
Dr Boue'. (Concluded from p. 146.) 
Jura Limestone. 
Monitor, &c. 
Bemains of Fishes 
Eelemnites acuarius 
paxillosus 
irregularis 
tripartitus 
lanceolatus 
penicillatus 
polyphoratus 
-Ammonites planulatus 
c6 vulgaris 
/3 nodosus 
y comprimatus 
^ anus 
Ammonites annulatus 
colubrinus major 
ammonius ( 
amaltheusi™^y*“ 
costatus 
coronatus 
dubius 
convolutus 
caprinus 
varians 
comprimatus 
colubratus 
noricus 
naviculatus 
interruptus 
radians 
laevis 
-L>auLiuLfc;s oguaiucus 
pictus 
Leiiticulites antiquus 
globulatus 
discorbinus 
Serpulites gordialis 
lumbricalis 
Helicites 'delphinulatus 
(in Lias ?) 
viviparinus 
Conulites ventricosus 
viarius 
Buccinites tornatus (in 
Lias ?) 
perdicarius 
Muricites 
Trochilites politus (in 
Lias) 
