Introduction to the Study of PalAEontological Botany

John Hutton Balfour

PREFACE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

LIST OF WOODCUTS.

PALAEONTOLOGICAL BOTANY .

FLORA OF THE PRIMARY OR PALAEOZOIC PERIOD. Reign of Acrogens.

FOSSIL FLORA OF THE SECONDARY OR MESOZOIC PERIOD. Reign of

FOSSIL FLORA OF THE TERTIARY OR CAINOZOIC PERIOD,

INDEX.

FOOTNOTES:

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INTRODUCTION
TO THE STUDY OF
PALÆONTOLOGICAL BOTANY

INTRODUCTION

TO THE STUDY OF

PALÆONTOLOGICAL BOTANY

JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR, A.M. M.D. EDIN.

F.R.S., SEC. R.S.E., F.L.S.

PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND BOTANY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,
REGIUS KEEPER OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN,
AND QUEEN'S BOTANIST FOR SCOTLAND

WITH FOUR LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, AND UPWARDS OF
ONE HUNDRED WOODCUTS

EDINBURGH
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1872

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

PROF. HEINRICH ROBERT GOEPPERT, M.D.,

DIRECTOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN, BRESLAU;

ONE OF THE MOST EMINENT PALÆONTOLOGICAL
BOTANISTS OF EUROPE,

The following Treatise

IS DEDICATED, WITH BEST RESPECTS, BY HIS
OBLIGED FRIEND

THE AUTHOR.

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