104 THE PHENOMENON OF 



nowhere clearly shown ; it is termed a universal morpho- 

 logical or phytodomic element, the primitive link or 

 element of all external organs of plants, from the varied 

 combinations of which are formed the root, stem, and 

 leaf, which have been incorrectly regarded as essentially 

 different organs of the plant ; but where the limits of 

 the single anapliyton are to be found in these structures, 

 how it is to be recognised in its combinations and 

 separated as an independent constituent part, remains, in 

 most cases, altogether obscure. Much of what Schultz 

 ascribes to the anaphyton is applicable to the cell ; but 

 Sch ul tz's anapliyton is not the cell, for Schultz imagines 

 therein a morphological unity, in which it is essential to 

 embrace the various principal modifications of the tissue, 

 as organs of the individual life. Such a morphological 

 unity, the varied combinations of which would explain 

 the variety of the external parts of plants, has, in 

 reality, no existence whatever, as unprejudiced examina- 

 tion readily shows. When we trace the anaphyton in 

 Schultz's '''construction" of vegetable structure, we find the 

 most diverse things thrown together without the slightest 

 morphological tact.* We meet with the anapkyton at 

 one time as an internode bounded by nodes, or as an 

 articulated piece of the petiole of a compound leaf; at 

 another time, however, as any given piece of an inarticu- 

 lated trunk bearing a bud, or capable of producing one ; 

 or even as a totally arbitrary piece of a root (as such 

 without articulations), which is said to be composed of as 

 many anaphyta as pieces it can be cut into capable of 

 producing adventitious buds; further, the anaphyton 

 appears as a longitudinal strip of a flat leaf ;f lastly, 

 actually as a circular Rejuvenescence-layer in the interior 



* Schultz's doctrine is in this respect certainly much more variegated 

 than the " chaotic hash of the theory of metamorphosis." ' Neues System,' 

 p. xvii. 



t Broad flat leaves are said to originate by lateral (sympleuric) fusion 

 (symphytosis) of normal stalk-shaped anaphyla. ' Neues Syst. der Morph.,' 

 page 2. 



