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Ancient Plants

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Ancient Plants

Marie Carmichael Stopes

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Coal is a forest that fell three hundred million years ago. Marie Stopes tells the story of fossil plants: the kinds preserved, the seven ages of plant life, the slow stages of evolution, and the fine structure locked in stone. A lively introduction to the botany of the deep past. Read the green history buried underground.

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30 chapters

  1. 1ANCIENT PLANTS
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
  5. 5CHAPTER II VARIOUS KINDS OF FOSSIL PLANTS
  6. 6CHAPTER III COAL, THE MOST IMPORTANT OF PLANT REMAINS
  7. 7CHAPTER IV THE SEVEN AGES OF PLANT LIFE
  8. 8CHAPTER V STAGES IN PLANT EVOLUTION
  9. 9CHAPTER VI MINUTE STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL PLANTS—LIKENESSES TO LIVING ONES
  10. 10Principal Types of Plant Cells
  11. 11CHAPTER VII MINUTE STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL PLANTS—DIFFERENCES FROM LIVING ONES
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES I. Flowering Plants, Angiosperms
  13. 13CHAPTER IX PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES II. Higher Gymnosperms
  14. 14CHAPTER X PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES III. The Bennettitales
  15. 15CHAPTER XI PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES IV. The Cycads
  16. 16CHAPTER XII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES V. Pteridosperms
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VI. The Ferns
  18. 18CHAPTER XIV PAST HISTORIES OF PLANT FAMILIES VII. The Lycopods

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