"Sigillaria" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thou true spectator of that mighty forest When above thy head the stately Sigillaria Reared its columned trunks in that remote ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte
... Club-mosses, or Lycopodiales, were massive trees, rising sometimes to a height of 120 feet, and probably averaging about fifty feet in height and one or two feet in diameter. The largest and most abundant of them, the Sigillaria, sent up a scarred and fluted trunk to a height of seventy or a hundred feet, without a branch, and was crowned with a bunch of its long, tapering leaves. The Lepidodendron, its fellow monarch of the ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe |
