X. 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER III. 
GENERAL VIEW OF FOSSIL BOTANY. 
Enumeration of Plants found Fossil. The Flowerless Class. 
Southern Type of Fossil Sea-Weed. Absence of Mosses. 
Equisetuin. Calamites. Ferns and Tree Ferns. Monotonous 
Character of Ancient Vegetation. Fir Trees and their persis¬ 
tence throughout all Strata. Lepidostrohi. Lepidodendron. 
Palms and Cycadeae. Sigillaria. Singidar Arrangement of 
Branches. Difficulties of the Inquiry. Conversion of Vegeta¬ 
ble Matter. Wisdom of the Arrangements. 
CHAPTER IV. 
SUPERFICIAL DEPOSITS. 
Reasons for Separate Treatment. Effects of Causes now in 
Operation. Peat Bogs. White of Selborne. Evelyn. Tin 
Deposits of Cornwall. Ireland. Submarine Forests on Coasts 
of Normandy, Cornwall, and elsewhere. Connection between 
these Deposits and Extinct Races of Animals. 
CHAPTER V. 
FLORA OF TERTIARY AND SECONDARY ROCKS. 
Plan of Investigation. London Clay. Sheppy Fruits. South 
American Fossil Forests. Amber. Flora of the Chalk and 
Greensand. Oolites. Portland Quarries and their Cycadean 
Remains. New Red Sandstone. 
