brongniart’s table. 
115 
No. 
of spe- 
No. of 
cies 
disco- 
species ex- 
vered to 
isting at 
CLASS AND ORDER. 
have been 
the pre- 
existing at 
sent 
the 
carbo- 
epoch. 
niferous era. 
I. riowerless Plants 
• « 
7000 
II. Cellular Cryptogamia 
• • 
1500 
III. Vascular Crj^ptogamia— 
Equisetaceae. 
14" 
Ferns .. .. - 
Marsileaceae. 
Lycopodiaceae 
130 
68, 
219 
1700 
IV. Gymnospermic Flowering Plants 
150 
V. Monocotyledonous Flowerin 
Plants— 
Palms . 
31 
Canes . 
1 
> 
18 
8000 
Undetermined 
14 
VI. Dycotyledonous Flowering Plants 
32000 
Plants of which the class 
is 1 
21 
uncertain 
> 
1 
258 
50350 
Messieurs Lindley and Hutton in their 
great work, so full of exquisite illustrations 
of extinct vegetation, thus sum up the 
evidence as to the carboniferous period. 
