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are a strictly monophyletic and modern group, since they possess 

 in common a very characteristic mode of arrangement of bun- 

 dles of a unique type, and since neither the structure of the 

 bundles nor their mode of disposition is palingenetic. Further, 

 the evidence of secondary growth in Gloriosa, etc., would seem 

 to indicate that the Monocotyledons have come off somewhere 

 from the Dicotyledons, which they resemble so closely in their 

 essential reproductive organs. This view of the matter seems 

 strengthened by the greater reduction of the sporogenous tissue 

 in the megasporangium of the Monocotyledons as compared 

 with the lower Dicotvledons, and bv the entire absence of the 

 probably primitive phenomenon of chalazogamy, which is so 

 characteristic of the lower Dicotyledons. In the present state 

 of our knowledge we are apparently justified in considering 

 the Monocotyledons to be a modern, strictly monophyletic and 

 specialized group, derived from the Dicotyledons or their parent 

 stock, possibly by adaptation in the first instance to an amphibi- 

 ous mode of life.* 



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* It should be noted that the manuscript of Chapters XVI and XVII was 

 completed April 1, 19i>2. 



