Here is a fantastic opportunity to acquire important books for your study and enjoyment!
ECOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN CONIFERS
by Neal Enright & Robert Hill
 
If you have wondered what became of all of those fossil woods of the Mesozoic, this book will enlighten you about their modern descendants (hint: the Araucarias and Podocarps ended up exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere).  The authors, both of whom are academics in Australian Universities, go into some details about the survival of these southern conifer families during the late Tertiary and the status of them today in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America.  This book was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in 1995 and was one of the first studies to examine the factors that lead to the ability of these Southern Conifers to compete with Southern Hemisphere angiosperms (which was certainly not their experience when competing with Northern Hemisphere angiosperms).  $15
FLOWERING PLANT FAMILIES OF THE WORLD
by V.H. Heywood, R.K. Brummitt, A. Culham & O. Seberg
 
An alphabetical listing of all flowering plant families with descriptions of flowers, habit (shrub tree, herbaceous plant, etc.  Very well illustrated with comprehensive text.  424 pages and well-indexed with manor genera of families in the index.  A very useful book for the botany enthusiast.  Large format and quite heavy.  $15
​AMERICAN FOSSIL CYCADS
by George Reber Wieland  
 
This is a reprinted set of the two volumes as originally published by Wieland in 1923.  There is extensive text and extensive illustration.  There is simply an incredible amount of information in these reprints.  Oddly, it seems that Volume 2 is always ascribed to "Anonymous" rather than to Professor Wieland despite the fact that his name appears on the reprinted title page.  Wieland was professor of paleontology at Yale University and he was responsible for the establishment of Cycad National Monument in South Dakota.  Some critics say he was also responsible for the elimination of Cycad National Monument from the National Park System because he carted off most of the specimens from the National Monument to Yale University where they now rest in the basement of the Paleontology Museum - many of them with core bored out of the trunk as a result of Wieland's scientific inquiries into the nature of these interesting plants fossils.  As a result, the national monument was devoid of the namesake cycads and was therefore dropped from the National Park System.  Both volumes are included for the price of $45
​THE GREENING OF GONDWANA - THE 400 MILLION YEAR STORY OF AUSTRALIA'S PLANTS
by Mary E. White

​If you fancy some of those wonderful silicified ferns and wood slabs from Australia this book will give you the background in geologic history that you will need to fully understand the fossil history of "down under." $30