Author: Australian Museum

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-04

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780243275915

Excerpt from Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 4 This (pl. I., fig. 1) is the largest of the three small cones, and is eighteen millimetres in length. Under the coaly pellicle which practically constitutes the fossil, the shale is impressed with narrow transverse node-like constrictions, from which the leaves spring in upward succession, streaming above the apex of the cone. The smallest of the two larger cones (pl. Ii., fig. 2) is twenty-seven millimetres long by thirteen wide (as compressed). Here the nodal lines are very apparent, each giving support to a row of delicate leaves, rather broad at the base, but fine and acicular above. The apical portions are bent outwards at an acute angle, and are visible at the sides of the cone. The fifth cone (pl. Ii., fig. 1) only differs from the last slightly in size, otherwise exhibiting precisely the same characters it is thirty millimetres long, and seventeen broad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.