There were tall grasses, ferns, lycopods, besides sigillaria, asterophyllites, now scarce plants, but then the species might be counted by thousands. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic size; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Sir Charles Lyell mentions an individual sigillaria 72 feet in length found at Newcastle, and a specimen taken from the Jarrow coal mine was more than 40 feet in length and 13 feet in diameter near the base. ❋ Various (N/A)
(Is there perchance a survival here of the _sigillaria_, the little clay dolls sold in Rome at the _Saturnalia_?) ❋ Clement A. Miles (N/A)
For the earthenware or pastry sigillaria then sold all over Rome, see Macrobius; s. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
I have many times used this in illustration of the hollow sigillaria trees of the coal, for in these, also, the bark was the most imperishable part. ❋ Unknown (1903)
In no other age did the world ever witness such a flora; the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth — a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians, of the reed-like calamite, the tall tree-fern, the sculptured sigillaria, and the hirsute lepidodendrons. ❋ 1821-1902 (1860)
He may notice, however, in the fifth and sixth wall cases, fossil specimens of extinct plants, including the sigillaria, which, when living, is supposed to have attained often to the height of seventy feet. ❋ W. Blanchard Jerrold (1855)
Amongst the most remarkable are -- the sigillaria, of which large stems are very abundant, shewing that the interior has been soft, and the exterior fluted with separate leaves inserted in vertical rows along the flutings -- and the stigmaria, plants apparently calculated to flourish in marshes or pools, having ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
In no other age did the world ever witness such a flora: the youth of the earth was peculiarly a green and umbrageous youth, -- a youth of dusk and tangled forests, of huge pines and stately araucarians, of the reed-like calamite, the tall tree-fern, the sculptured sigillaria, and the hirsute lepidodendron. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
Ever since the appearance, in 1846, of Mr. Binney's paper on the relations of stigmaria to sigillaria as roots and stems, I have been looking for distinguishing specific marks among the former; and, failing for a time to find any, I concluded that, though the stems of the sigillarian genus were variously sculptured, their roots might in all the species have been the same. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
