REPRODUCTION 27 



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. 



