FOSSIL PLANTS AT (ENINGEN. 51 I 
No distinct catalogues of plants found in the 
Pliocene, or most recent periods of the Tertiary 
Series, have yet been published. 
'■eshwater formation of Q5ningen, which has been already 
®poken of in our account of fossil fishes. The plants enume- 
'‘ated in this catalogue, were collected during a long series of 
years by the inmates of a monastery near CEningen, on the 
'dissolution of which they were removed to their present place in 
Museum of Carlsruhe. It appears by this catalogue that 
plants of Qiningen afford examples of thirty-six species be- 
longing to twenty-five genera of the following families. 
** Families. Genera. 
Species. 
Genera. 
Species. 
^olypodiacetfi 
2 
Equisitaceffi 
1 
l' 
► Cryptogamiffi, total 4 
4 
hycopodiaceee 
1 
1 J 
Coniferee 
2 
2 
Gymnospermise 
2 
2 
^ramineae 
1 
11 
^ajadeae 
2 
. Moncotyledons 
.3 
3 
Amentaceaa 
5 
IQi 
•duglandese 
1 
2 
^benacese 
1 
1 
'd'iliaceae 
1 
1 
■^cerineffi 
1 
5 
. Dicotyledons 
16 
27 
hhamnese 
1 
2 
d'SguminosEe 
2 
2 
dicotyledons of 
doubtful families 
4 
4 
Th* 
‘*'s table shews the great preponderance of Dicotyledonous 
Piants in the Flora of Qiningen, and affords a standard of com- 
parison with those of the Brown-coal of other localities in the 
T’ 
®rtiary series. The greater number of the species found here cor- 
’’sspond with those in the Brown-coal of the Wetteraw and vi- 
cinity of Bonn. t 
-Amid this predominance of dicotyledonous vegetables, not a 
**'igle herbaceous plant has yet been found excepting some frag- 
