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in this case the sexual plant is the more conspicuous one. 

 The higher flowering plants all exhibit a sort of alternation 

 of generations, inasmuch as the plant first throws off 

 branches i.e., individuals arising by the asexual process 

 of budding which in their turn produce sexual flowers. 

 But here the sexual generation never becomes really in- 

 dependent, remaining more or less a part of the asexual 

 organism. 



