SECOND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF PENNSYLVANIA - REPORT OF PROGRESS
P. DESCRIPTION OF THE COAL FLORA OF PENNSYLVANIA
AND OF THE
CARBONIFEROUS FORMATION THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES
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Author
Subject/Title
Andree, (R.)
Versteinerungen d. Steinkohlen Gebirge, von Stradonitz, Boehmen.
Andrews, (E. B.)
1. Descriptions of Fossil Plants from the Coal Measures of Ohio. (Rept. of the Geol. Survey of Ohio, Paleontology, vol. ii, 1875.)
2. Elementary Geology, (1878.)
Auerbach, (J.)
Notiz uber einige Pflanzenversteinerungen aus einem Sandsteine des moskovit Governement. (Bullet. de la Soc. Imp. des naturalistes de Moscow. 1844.)
Artis, (Ed. Tyrell.)
Antediluvian Phytology. London, 1825.
Balfour, (John Hutton.)
Introduction to the study of Palaeontological Botany. Edinburg, 1872.
Berger, (Reinh.)
De fructibus et Seminibus ex formations lithanthracum. Vratisl., 1848.
Binney, (E. W.) 1. Remarks on Sigillaria and some spores found imbedded in the inside of its roots. (Quat. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1859.)
2. On Sigillaria and its roots. (Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc., 1860-61.)
3. A description of some fossil plants showing structure, found in the lower Coal seams of Lancashire and Yorkshire. (Philosoph. Trans., vol. x, Mvccclxv.) London, 1865.
4. Observations on the structure of Fossil Plants found in the Carboniferous strata. Part I, Calamites and Calamodendron, 1868; Part II, Lepidostrobus, and some allied cones, 1871; Part III, Lepidodendron, 1872; Part IV, Sigillaria and Stigmaria, 1875. (Palaeontographical Society of London.)
Brauns, (D.) Der Sandstein by Seinstedt unweit des Fallsteins and die in ihm vorkommenden Pflanzenreste. (Palaeontographica, vols. ix and xiii.)
Brongniart, (Ad.) 1. Prodrome d'une histoire des vegetaux fossiles. (1828.)
2. Histoire des vegetaux fossiles ou recherches botaniques et Geologiques sur les vegetaux dans les diverses couches du Globe, 1828-1844. (15 fast. ; work not finished.)
3. Memoire sur la relation du genre Noeggerathia avec les plantes vivantes. (Ann. Sci. Nat., 1833.)
4. Observations sur la structure interieure du Sigillaria elegans, compare a celle des Lepidodendron et des Stigmariae et a celle des vegetaux vivants. (Archives du Museum, vol. i.) 1839.
5. Tableau des genres des vegetaux fossiles consideres sous le point de vue de leur classification botanique et de leur distribution geologique. (Extrait du Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle.) 1849.
6. Etudes des graines silicifiees du Terrain Houiller de Saint-Etienne. (Ann. d. Ski. nat. 5e series, vol. xx, 1878.)
Bunbury, (Ch. I. F.) 1. Description of an upright Lepidodendron with Stigmaria roots, in the roof of the Sidney Main Coal, in the Island of Cape Breton. (Quat. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1847.)
2. On erect Sigillariae with conical tap roots, found in the roof of the Sidney Main Coal. (Ibid., 1849.)
3. On a particular Fossil Fern from the Sidney Coal-field, Cape Breton. (Quat. Jour. Geol. Soc., 1852.)
4. On fossil plants from the Coal formations of Cape Breton. (Ibid., vol. iii.)
Claypole, (E. W.) On the occurrence of a Fossil Tree (Glyptodendron) in the Clinton limestone. (Geol. Mag., Dec. 2, vol. V, 1878.)
Coemans (Eug.) et Kickx, (J. J.) Monographie des Sphenophyllum d' Europe. (Bull. de l' Acad. roy. de Belgique, vol. xviii.) 1864.
Corda, (A. C. J.) Beitrage zur Flora der Vorwelt. 1845.
Crepin, (Francois.) 1. Fragments paleontologiques pour servir a la Fiore du Terrain Houiller de Belgique. (Bull. de l' Acad. Roy. d. Belgique, 2d series, vol. xxxviii.) 1874.
2. Description de quelques planter fossiles de l'etage des Psammites du Condroz. (Ibid.) 1874.
Dawson, (J. W.) 1. Acadian Geology, 1855; Supplement, 1860. Second edition, 1868 ; third edition, 1878.
2. On fossil plants, from the Devonian Rocks of Canada. (Quat. Journ. Geol. Soc. of London.) 1859.
3. On the Pre-Carboniferous Flora of New Brunswick, Maine, and Eastern Canada. (Canadian Naturalist for May, 1861.)
4. On the Flora of the Devonian Period in North-Eastern America. (Quat. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xviii.) 1862.
5. Further observations on the Devonian Plants of Maine, Gaspe, and New York. (Ibid., vol. xix.) 1863.
6. On the conditions of the Deposition of the coal, more especially illustrated by the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. (Ibid., vol. xxii.) 1866.
7. On the Structure and Affinities of Sigillaria, Calamites, and Calamodendron. (Ibid., vol. xxvii.) 1871.
8. On new Tree Ferns and other Fossils from the Devonian. (Ibid., vol. xxvii.) 1871.
9. The Fossil Plants of the Devonian and Upper Silurian Formations of Canada. (Geol. Survey of Canada.) 1871.
10. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone Grit Formations of Canada. (Ibid.) 1873.
11. On a specimen of Diploxylon, from the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia. (Quat. Journ. Geol. Soc., November, 1877. )
12. Notes on some Devonian Plants. (Canad. Naturalist, vol. viii, No. 7.) 1872.(*)
* Of others works not quoted in the U.S. Coal Flora Prof. J. W. Dawson has published:
Notes on an erect Sigillaria and a Carpolites. (Quat. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. x, 2, 0.)
Synopsis of the Flora of the Carboniferous Period. (Can. Naturalist, 1863.)
The vegetable structures in Coal. (Quat. Journ. Gaol. S )c., vol. xv.) 1800.
Report on Prince Edward's Island. (Plants of Permo Carboniferous, 1871.)
Oa spore-cases in coal. (Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 1371.)
On Carruther's views of Prototaxites. (Monthly Micr. Journ., 1873.)
On the Upper Coal Formation of Nova Scotia. ( Fossil plants, 1871.)
On New Devonian plants. (Proc. Geol. Soc. of London, 1880.)
Dawes, (J. S.) Remarks upon the internal structure of Halonia. (Quat. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1847.)
Eichwald, (E.) Lethaea rossica on Paleontologie de la Russie. 3 vols., 1852-1869.
Ettingshausen, (C. v.) 1. Beitrage zur Flora d. Vorwelt. (Natur. Abhandl. v. Haidinger, vol. iv, 1851.)
2. Die Steinkohlen flora von Stradonitz in Boehmen. (Abhandl. der Geol. Reichsanstalt, 1852.)
3. Die Steinkohlen flora von Radnitz in Boehmen. (Ibid., 1854.)
Ettingshausen, (C. v.,) and Debey. Die urweltlichen Acrobryen d. Kreidegebirgs von Aachen and Mastricht. (Denk.-An. d. K. K. Akad. d. Wissensch., Vien, 1857.)
Feistmantel, (Oscar.) Steinkohlen flora von Kralup in Boehmen. (Abhandl. d. K. Bohm-Gesellsch d. Wissensch., vi, Vien. 1871.)
Fiedler, (H.) Die fossilen Fruchte der Steinkohlen formation Breslau, 1854.
Fairchild, (Herman L.) 1. On the variations of decorticated leaf scars of certain Sigillariae. (Annals of the New York Ac. of Sci., vol. i, No. 2, 1S77.)
2. On the variations of leaf scars of Lepidodendron aculeatum, St. (Ibid., No. 3, 1877.)
3. On the identity of certain supposed species of Sigillaria with Sigillaria lepidodendrifolia, Brgt. (Ibid., No. 5, 1878.)
Fontaine, (W. F.) 1. Species of fossil plants described or mentioned in the Great Conglomerate on New River, West Virginia. (Am. Jour. Sci., third series, vol. vii, 1874.)
2. The Conglomerate Series of W. Virginia. (Ibid., vol. xi, 1876.)
3. Notes on the Vespertine Strata of Virginia and West Virginia. (Ibid., vol. xiii, 1877.)
Fontaine, W. F., and I. C. White. The Permian or upper carboniferous Flora of West Virginia. (Sec. Geol. Surv. of Pennsylvania, Rept. PP.)
Geinitz, (H. B.) 1. Die Versteinerungen der Steinkohlen formation in Sachsen. Leipsig, 1855, fol.
2. Die Zechstein formation u. d. Rothliegende. Berlin, 1861.
Germar, (E. F.) Versteinerungen des Steinkohlengebirgs von Wettin u. Loebejun. Halle, 1844.
Germar n.  Kaulfuss, ueber merkwurdige Pflanzenabdrucke, a. d. Steinkohien formation. (Nova acta nat. Curios., 1831.)
Goldenberg, (F.) Flora Sarraepontana fossilis, 3 livr., fol. Saarbrucken, 1855-1862.
Goeppert, (H. R.) 1. Systema Filicum fossili um. (Nova acta Acad. Caesareae Leop. natur. Curios. suppl., vol. xvii. Breslau, 1836, 4°.)
2. De Coniferarum Structura Anatomica. (1841.)
3. Die Gattungun der fossilen Pflanzen. Bonn., 1841-48. Fasc. 1-6, 4°, not finished.
4. Monographie der fossilen Coniferen. (Naturk. Verhand. Haarlem II, Deel 6, Leyden, 1850, 4°.)
5. Die fossile Flora des Uebergangsgebirges. (Nova acta Acad. Caesareae Leop. nat. Curios., vol. xxii, suppl., Breslau, 1852, 4°.
6. Die fossile Flora der Permischen Formation. Cassel, 1864-1865, 4°.)
Grand'Eury, (Cyrille.) Flore carbonifere du. Departement de la Loire et du Centre de la France. Paris, 1877, 4°.
Granger, (E.) Notice of Vegetable Impressions on the rocks connected with the coal formation of Zanesville, (Ohio.) (Amer. Journ. of Sc., vol. iii.)
Gutbier, (A. V.) 1. Abdrucke u. Versteinerungen des Zwickaur Schwarzkohlengebirges u. seiner Umgebungen. Zwickau, 1842.
2. Die Versteinerungen des Rothliegenden in Sachsen. Dresden u. Leipsig, 1849.
Hall, (James.) 1. Natural History of New York, (Palaeontology.) Albany, 1852, 4°.
2. Contributions to Palaeontology, (Flora of the Devonian Period.) Sixteenth Annual Report of the Regents of the University of New York. Albany, 1863.
Harlan, (Rich.) 1. Description of an extinct species of fossil Vegetable, Fucoides Allegheniensis. (Acad. of Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, vol. vi, 1831.)
2. On Fucoides Brongniartii. (Amer. Jour. of Geol. & Nat. Sci., i, 1831.)
3. Notice of Fossil Vegetable remains from the Bituminous Coal Measures of Pennsylvania. (Trans. Geol. Soc. of Penn'a, p. 256.
4. Description of a new fossil plant from Penn'a. (Ibid., i, p. 260.)
Heer, (Oswald.) 1. Flora fossilis Helvetica. 4 vols., fol. 1855-1876.
2. Flora fossilis arctica. 5 vols., 4°. 1868-1878.
3. Fossil flora der Baren-Insel. (Kongl. Svenska VedensKaps. Akad. Handl., ix, 1871.)
Hildreth, (S. P.) 1. On the Bituminous Coal deposits of the Ohio Valley, with notes on fossil organic remains. (Amer. Journ. Sci., first series, vol. xxix, 1830.)
2. Notes from the diary of a naturalist on a tour to the falls of Cuyahoga, Ohio. (Am. Journ. Sci., first series, vol. xxxi, 1838.)
Hooker, (J. D.) 1. On the vegetation of the Carboniferous Period, as compared with that of the present day. (Geol. Surv. of the United Kingdom, 1847.)
2. On a New Species of Volkmannia. (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1854.)
Hooker and Binney. On Trigonocarpous contained in bituminous nodules. (Ibid., 1855.)
Lesquereux, (Leo.) 1. New species of fossil plants from the Coal fields of Pennsylvania. (Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist., vol. vi, 1854.)
2. Fossil plants of the Coal strata of Pennsylvania. (In H. D. Roger's Geol. of Penn'a, 1858.)
3. The fossil plants of the Coal measures of the United States. Catalogue with description of new species. Pottsville, 1858.
4. Palaeontological Report on the Flora of the Coal Measures of W. Kentucky. (D. Dale Owen Geol. Survey of Ky., vol. iii, 1857.)
5. Report of the fossil Flora and on the stratigraphical distribution of the coal in the Kentucky Coal fields. (Ibid., vol. iv, 1861.)
6. Botanical and palaeontological Report on the Geological State Survey of Arkansas. (Second Report on the Geol. of Ark., 1860.)
7. Enumeration of the fossil Plants found in the Coal Measures of Illinois, with descriptions of new species. (Geol. Survey of Ill., vol. ii, 1866.)
8. Fossil plants of the Main Sewanee Jackson Coal, etc., of Tennessee. (Geology of Tennessee, 1869.)
9. Report on the fossil Plants of the Illinois Coal fields. (Ibid., vol. iv, 1870.)
10. On Fucoids in the Coal formations. (Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., vol. xiii, 1868.)
11. On species of Marine Plants from the Carboniferous measures. (Seventh Annual Rept. on the Geol. Survey of Indiana, 1875.)
12. Partial List of Coal Plants from the Alabama fields. (Geol. Survey of Alabama, 1876.)
13. Land plants recently discovered in the Silurian Rocks of the United States. (Am. Phil. Soc., Philadelphia, 1877.)
14. On Cordaites and their Generic Divisions in the Carboniferous formations of the United States. (Ibid., 1878.)
15. On a branch of Cordaites, bearing fruit. (Ibid., 1879.)
Lindley and Hutton. Fossil Flora of Great Britain. 3 vols., 8°. London, 1831-1837. New Ed., London, 1872.
Ludwig, (R.) Fossile Pflanzenreste aus der palaeolithen Formation der Umgegend von Dellenburg, etc. (Paleontograph, vol. xvii, 1879.)
Meek, (F. B.) Descriptions of New Species of Fossil Plants from Allegheny Co., Virginia. (Bull. Phil. Soc. of Washington, 1875.) ,
Morris, (John.) Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Plants contained in the College of Surgeons of England. 1855.
Newberry, (J. S.) 1. Fossil plants from the Ohio coal basin. (Annals of Science, of Cleveland, Ohio, vol. i, Nos. 8 & 9, 1853.)
2. New Fossil Plants from Ohio. (Ibid., Nos. 10, 13, 14, 1853.)
3. Structure and Affinities of certain Fossil Plants of the Carboniferous era. (Ibid., No. 23.)
4. New species of Fossil Plants. (Ibid., vol. ii, No. 1, 1854.)
5. Description of Fossil Plants from the Coal measures of Ohio. (Rept. of the Geol. Survey of Ohio, vol. i, Palaeontology. )
Parkinson, (J.) Organic remains of a former World. London, 1808-1820.
Petzhold, (Al.) Ueber Calamiten und Steinkohlenbildung. Leipzig, 1841.
Presl, (K. Bos.) Beitrage zur kunde vorweltl. Pflanzen. (Verhandl. d. Gesellsch. d. Vaterl. Museum in Boeh-menn. 1837.)
Renault, (B.) 1. Etudes sur quelques vegetaux silicifies des environs d' Autun. (Ann. Sc. nat., 5th ser., vol. xii.)
2. Recherches sur 1' organisation des Sphenophyllum et des Annularia. (Ibid., vol. xviii.)
3. Structure comparee de quelques tiges de la Flore Carbonifere. (Nouv. arch. du Museum de Parls, 11, 2d. series, 1879.)
Roehl. Fossile Flora der Steinkohlen formation Westphalens, ein-schlieslich Piesberg und Osnabruck. Cassel, 1868.
Roemer, (Fr. Ad.) Pflanzen des productiven Steinkohlengebirges am Harz und Piesberg. (Palaeontograph. vol. ix.)
Sauveur, (J.) Vegetaux fossiles des anciens terrains houillers de Belgique. Bruxelles, 1868. (No text.)
Schimper (W. P.) et Mougeot, (A.) Monographie des plantes fossiles du grey bigarre des Vosges, 4°. Leipsic, 1844.
Schimper, (W. P.) 1. Les vegetaux fossiles de Terrain de Transition des Vosges, (in Terrain de Transition des Vosges, by J. Kcechlin-Schlumberg & W. P. Schimper, 4°. Strasbourg, 1862.)
2. Traite de Paleontologie Vegetale. Paris, 1874. Schimper (W. P.) and Karl Zittle. Handbuch der Palaeontologie. (1879.) Not finished.
Scheuchzer. Herbarium diluvianum. (1709.)
Schlotheim, (E. Freih. v.) 1. Beschreibung merkwurdiger Krauterabdrucke und Pflanzenversteinerungen. Gotha, 1804.
2. Flora der Vorwelt, 1 Abth. Gotha, 1804.
3. Die Petrefactenkunde auf ihrem, jetzigen Standpunkte. Gotha, 1820, mit Nachtragen. Abth. I & II, Gotha, 1822-1823.
Steinhauer, (H.) On Fossil Reliquia of unknown vegetables in Coal Strata. (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., 1.) 1818.
Sternberg, (Gasp. Graf. v.) Versucheiner Geognost. botan. Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt, fol. liv. 1-4. Leipzig, 1821-1838.
Stur, (D.) 1. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Flora der Vorwelt, fol. Vol. I. Dle Culm-Flora des marisch-Schlesischen Dachschiefers. Vien., 1875.
2. Vol. II. Die Culm-Flora der ostrauer und Walden burger Schichten. Vien., 1877.
Teschemacher, (J. E.)  On the Fossil Vegetation of America. Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., vol. V, 1847.
Unger, (Fr.) 1. Ueber die Structur der Calamiten und ihre Rangordnung im Gewachsreich. (Amtl. Bericht d. Versamel. d. Naturf. u. Aerzte zu Erlangen, 1840.)
2. Genera et Species plantarum fossilium. Vindob, 1840.
3. Synopsis plantarum fossilium. Leipzig, 1845.
4. Beitrage zur Palaeontographie des Thuringes-Walde, 1856.
Vanuxem, (Lard.) Geology of New York. Albany, 1842.
Weiss, (C. E.) 1. Fossile Flora der jungsten Steinkohlen formation, u. d. Rothliegenden in Saargebiet. Bonn, 1869-1872.
2. Studien uber Odontopteriden. (Zeitsch. Deutsch., Geol. Gesellsch, 1870.)
Williamson, (W. C.) 1. On the structure of the woody zone of an undescribed form of Calamites. (Mem. of the Liter. and Phil. Soc., Manchester, 1869.)
2. On a new form of Calamitean Strobilus. (Ibid., 1870.)
3. Notes on the organs, fructification, and foliage of Calamodendron commune. (Ibid., 1870.)
4. On the organization of Volkmannia Dawsoni. (Ibid., 1870-71.)
5. On the organization of the Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures. Part I-X, 4°. (Philos. Transact., 1871- 1880.)
Witham, (H.) Observations on Fossil Vegetables, illust. of their internal structure. London, 1831.
Wood, (Horatio C.) 1. Contributions to the Carboniferous Flora of the United States. (Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. of Philadelphia, 1860.)
2. Catalogue of carboniferous plants in Museum Acad. Nat. Sci. (Ibid., 1860.
3. Contribution to the knowledge of the Flora of the Coal Period in the United States. (Proceed. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. xiii, 1866.

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