"Sigillaria" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Neath Colliery. This fossil, which is the cast of a piece of a plant, puzzled those who found it for a very long time. At last, however, Mr. Binney found the specimen growing to the bottom of the trunk of one of the fossil trees with spotted stems, called Sigillaria; and so proved that this curious pitted stone is a piece of fossil root, or rather underground stem, like that which we found in the primrose, and that the little pits or dents in it are scars where the rootlets ...
— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley
... of that mighty forest When above thy head the stately Sigillaria Reared its columned trunks in that ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various |
