Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
Two of the Gymnospermatous Orders are represented by fruits found in Secondary strata, viz., Cycadeœ and Coniferœ; no remains have been observed, as far as I know of any plant belonging to the Gnetaceœ.. There is satisfactory evidence of the existence of Coniferœ from the period of the Old Red Sandstone; but it is very doubtful whether the Palæozoic fruits and leaves which have been referred to Cycadeœ have anything whatever to do with that order.
Reprinted (with some additional notes and alterations) from the “Journal of Botany” for January, 1867.
page 101 note 2 For an account of the Coniferous Fruits, see MrCarruthers', papers in the Geological Magzine, Vol. III., p. 534, Plate XX. and XXI.; and “On Araucarian Cones,” Vol. III., p. 249, Plate XI.Google Scholar
page 101 note 3 Goeppert found a small fragment of what he believes to be an Ephedra in amber, which he has called Ephedrites Johnianus.
page 103 note 1 Proceedings of York Phil. Soc, 1847, p. 46.Google Scholar
page 103 note 2 Ib. p. 39.Google Scholar
page 103 note 3 Transactions of the British Association, 1854, p. 103.Google Scholar