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Excerpt from Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey: Flora of the Outlying Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri
III. From a shaft 1 mile north Of Aurora, Lawrence county, a small bundle of specimens was collected in May, 1891: The shales contain ing the fossils are lighter than those described above, with less sand. The plants are poorly preserved, though numerous, the thicker tissues and leaves Of Cordaites being somewhat infiltrated with pyrites. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.