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the fortlicoming parts, while they are veiy small and un- 

 specialized. What will in such case be the appearances they 

 assumed ? We shall have no difficulty in perceiving what, it 

 will be, if we take a form like that shown in Fig. 92, and 

 dwarf its several parts at the same time that we generalize 

 them. Figs. 100, 101, 102, and 103, ^vill show the result; 

 and in Fig. 104, which is the bud of an exogen, we see how 



clear is the morphological correspondence : a being the 

 rudiment of a foliar organ beginning to take sha-joe ; h being 

 the almost formless rudiment of the next foliar organ ; and 

 c being the quite-undifferentiated part whence the rudiments 

 of subsequent foliar organs are to arise. 



And now we are prepared for entering on a still-remaining 

 question respecting the structure of Phacnogams — what is the 

 origin of axillary buds ? As the synthesis at present stands, 

 it does not account for these ; but on looking a little more 

 closely into the matter, we shall find that the axdlar}' buds 

 are interpretable in the same manner as the terminal buds. 

 So to interpret them, however, we must return to that pro- 

 cess of proliferous growth with which we set out, for the pur- 

 pose of obser^dng some facts not before named. Delesserla 

 hypoglossiim, Fig. 105, represents a seaweed of the sam.e genus 

 as one outlined in Fig. 40 ; but of a species in which pro- 

 liferous growth is carried much further. Here, not only does 

 the primary frond bud out many secondary fronds from its 

 mid-rib ; but laost of the secondary fronds similarly bud out 

 several tertiary fronds ; and even by some of the tertiary 

 fronds, this prolification is repeated. Besides being shown 

 that the budding out of several fronds from one frond, may 

 become habitual ; we are also slio^^m that it may become a 

 habit inherited by the fronds so produced, and also by tlie 



