Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2009
The following notes on three fossil plants handed to me by Dr. Hume have been written at the request of Capt. Lyons, Director-General of the Survey Department of Egypt. The material is unfortunately too fragmentary to admit of satisfactory determination; but in view of our ignorance in regard to the former vegetation of Egypt, it is desirable to put on record all available information. Of the three fossils only one is sufficiently well preserved to be referred with any degree of certainty to a genus.
page 254 note 1 Abh. k.k. Reichsanst., Bd. ii, Abt. 3, 1853.
page 254 note 2 Rev. Gen. Bot., ix, 1897. pl. xxi.
page 254 note 3 Beit. Flora Uut. Kreide Quedlinburg. 1906.
page 254 note 4 Kungl. Svensk. Vetenskaps. Hand., Bd. xii, No. 5, 1906; also ibid., No. 2.
page 254 note 5 Gattungen foss. Pflanzen, 1841, Lief. 5 and 6, pls. xviii, xix.
page 254 note 6 Flor. foss. Tonkin, 1902.
page 254 note 7 Kungl. Svensk. Vetenskaps. Hand., Bd. xli, No. 2.
page 255 note 1 Phil. Trans. ROY. SOC, 1901.
page 256 note 1 Seward: The Wealden Flora, pt. i (Brit. Mus. Catalogue, 1894). See also Nathorst: Arch. Ver. Freund. Nat. Meckl., Jahr. 44, 1890.