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form has appeared, the plant reverts to the juvenile condition once more. The 

 following may be cited as examples of this phenomenon. The alga Batracho- 

 spennum has a juvenile form named Chantransia (Goebel, 1889) ; protonemata 

 of mosses (Klebs, 1893), and the elongated and circular leaves of Campanula 

 rotimdifolia are examples of the same phenomenon (Goebel, 1896, Fig. 91). 



Fijf. gi. Cainpanula roiuudifolia. When feeblj' illuminated the flower-buds k arc arrested ; a lateral shoot 

 A develops circular leaves. From Goebel's Organographie. 



Certain Cactaceae (Opuntia, Phyllocactus) may be added to this list, since their 

 shoots flatten only in light and revert to the original radial stem-like symmetry 

 in the dark (Goebel, 1895 ; Vochting, 1894). 



Since the several organs of plants often bear the most varied relations to 



