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Calamites, -- _Calamites arenaceus_, -- a name, however, which seems to have been bestowed both on this Oolitic plant and a resembling Carboniferous species.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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The scholiast to the _De Corona_ of Demosthenes [191] says that the "hieron" of Calamites, an eponymous hero, was close to the
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Permian the Lepidodendron and Sigillaria were very rare, and before the end of the epoch they and the Calamites also had become extinct.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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Thus the title of a paper in the Philosophical Transactions was curiously changed in an advertisement, and the Calamites, a species of fossil plants of the coal measures, with but slight change appeared as "The True Fructification of Calamities."
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Then a new forest would spring up, the ferns, Calamites, Lepidodendrons, and Sigillarias would gradually form another jungle, and many hundred of feet above the buried coal-bed b, a second bed of peat and vegetable matter would begin to accumulate to form the coal-bed a. Such is the history of how the coal which we now dig out of the depths of the earth once grew as beautiful plants on the surface.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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Calamites, together with large tree-ferns, are the chief plants that we know of in the coal-forests.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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Calamites growing thickly together in the coal-forests, for we find their remains everywhere in the clay, so we can easily picture to ourselves how the dense jungle formed by these plants would fringe the coal-swamp, as the present plants do the Great
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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Calamites, a species of fossil plants of the coal measures, with but slight change appeared as ` ` The True Fructification of
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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And yet, though _eons_ of the past eternity have elapsed since we looked out upon Cycas and Zamia, and the last of the Calamites, the time is still early, and long ages must lapse ere man shall arise out of the dust, to keep and to dress fields waving with the productions of yet another and different flora, and to busy himself with all the labor which he taketh under the sun.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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What seems to be an early representative of the Calamites occurs in the same beds.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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