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n. - A family of ferns belonging to the order of lower vascular plants.

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  • The paths often passed through these rocky clefts, which in the depths of the forest were gloomy and dark in the extreme, and often full of fine-leaved herbaceous plants and...
  • Of these we will only enumerate arborescent Calamites and Lycopodiaceae, scaly
  • Coniferae are not ony allied to Cupuliferae and Betulinae, with which we find them associated in lignite formations, but also with Lycopodiaceae.
  • Lycopodiaceae, though still more abundant in the Coal formation, are very rarely found in any succeeding deposit, though the living species are tolerably numerous, about...
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