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FIG. 86. A large staghorn fern perching on a tree in Australia. Photograph by 



CHAMBERLAIN. 



sporophylls (see 58, p. 97) become different in appearance 

 from the foliage leaves (usually smaller, and often different in 

 form), and are grouped close together in the form of a cyl- 

 inder or cone (as in the pine cone). This group or cone of 



