Table of Contents

Precambrian life; fungi, bacteria and lichens; algae; bryophytes; terrestrialization of the land; the structure and organization of vascular plants; early land plants with conducting tissue; lycopods; sphenophytes; ferns; progymnosperms; origin and evolution of the seed habit; palaeozoic seed ferns; mesozoic seed ferns; palaeozoic and mesozoic foliage; cycadophytes; ginkgophytes; gymnsoperms with obscure affinities; cordaites; conifers; flowering plants; plant/animal interactions.