Return to Floras of India CatalogueAncient Plants--Being a simple account of the past vegetation of the Earth and of the recent important discoveries made in this realm of nature study/Marie C. Stopes. Reprint. First published in 1909. vii, 198 p., 122 figures, $17.
Contents: 1. Introductory. 2. Various kinds of fossil plants. 3. Coal, the most important of plant remains. 4. The seven ages of plant life. 5. Stages in plant evolution. 6. Minute structure of fossil plants--likenesses to living ones. 7. Minute structure of fossile plants--differences from living ones. 8. Past histories of plant families--(i) Flowering plants. 9. Past histories of plant families--(ii) Higher gymnosperms. 10. Past histories of plant families--(iii) Bennettitales. 11. Past histories of plant families--(vi) The cycads. 12. Past histories of plant families--(v) Pteridosperms. 13. Past histories of plant families--(vi) The ferns. 14. Past histories of plant families--(vii)The lycopods. 15. Past histories of plant families--(viii) The horsetails. 16. Past histories of plant families--(ix) Sphenophyllales. 17. Past histories of plant families--(x) The lower plants. 18. Fossil plants as records of ancient countries. 19. Conclusion. Appendix : 1. List of requirements for a collecting expedition. 2. Treatment of specimens. 3. Literature. Glossary. Index.
