Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or,. A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic Remains of the British MuseumHenry G. Bohn, 1851 - 496 pages |
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... base of Pisgah Mountain , Buncombe County , North Carolina . A portion of the iron ploughed up about seven miles from Chester- ville , Chester County , S. Carolina , described 1849 . Another of that which was seen to fall at Braunau ...
... base of Pisgah Mountain , Buncombe County , North Carolina . A portion of the iron ploughed up about seven miles from Chester- ville , Chester County , S. Carolina , described 1849 . Another of that which was seen to fall at Braunau ...
Page 27
... base , so as to form a zone around the stem : it is supposed that they were aquatic , or marsh plants , the stems and leaves floating on the surface of the water.1 Both these extinct types of plants are common in the carboniferous ...
... base , so as to form a zone around the stem : it is supposed that they were aquatic , or marsh plants , the stems and leaves floating on the surface of the water.1 Both these extinct types of plants are common in the carboniferous ...
Page 30
... base , and leave permanent cica- trices , or scars , on the trunk ; and these imprints are so durable , and so symmetrically arranged , as to afford characters by which the stem of a tree - fern may easily be recognised in a fossil ...
... base , and leave permanent cica- trices , or scars , on the trunk ; and these imprints are so durable , and so symmetrically arranged , as to afford characters by which the stem of a tree - fern may easily be recognised in a fossil ...
Page 35
... pits or depressions with which the surface is studded , each being attached by its base to the tubercle or eminence in the centre of the areola . When broken transversely , a small cylindrical core or axis is. ROOM I. 35 STIGMARIA .
... pits or depressions with which the surface is studded , each being attached by its base to the tubercle or eminence in the centre of the areola . When broken transversely , a small cylindrical core or axis is. ROOM I. 35 STIGMARIA .
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... base of the trunk by age . The scars wide at the base . Coal mine , New- produced by the attachment of the castle . A tree 39 feet high , and 13 feet petioles were persistent , and are , seldom obliterated in the fossils ; the branches ...
... base of the trunk by age . The scars wide at the base . Coal mine , New- produced by the attachment of the castle . A tree 39 feet high , and 13 feet petioles were persistent , and are , seldom obliterated in the fossils ; the branches ...
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