Palynological study of the Carboniferous Permian coal bearing strata in China has contributed quite a wealth of publications since the sixties of the last century. Most of them, however, served the purposes of stratigraphical dating and correlation as well as of basic research such as the description of many taxa, etc.,only a few papers were specifically dealing with spores and pollen from coals (Imgrund, 1960; Liao, 1987a,b; Yao and Lu, 1992; Tang, 1997). No attempt to discuss the mire flora or coal forming plants and their ecology has been made so far.