equisetaceae

The highest cryptogams -- ferns, lycopods, and equisetaceae -- appeared suddenly, and in immense profusion in the Coal formation, at which period they attained a development they have never since surpassed or even equalled; while the highest plants -- the dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous angiosperms -- which now form the bulk of the vegetation of the world, and exhibit the most wonderful modifications of form and structure, were almost unknown till the

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The dry land of this age presented cycadeae, "a beautiful class of plants between the palms and conifers, having a tall, straight trunk, terminating in a magnificent crown of foliage." {108b} There were tree ferns, but in smaller proportion than in former ages; also equisetaceae, lilia, and conifers.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

But, like the ferns and equisetaceae, they rise to a prodigious magnitude.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836

(equisetaceae), but, like the fern, reaching the magnitudes of trees.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836