STASIS. 217 
CHAPTER I. 
PERSISTENCE OF JUVENILE FORMS. 
Tue retention in adult hfe of a form characteristic 
of an early stage of development, and therefore usually 
transient, may be manifested in any of the organs of 
he plant. As these cases are for the most part treated 
under separate headings, it is here only necessary to 
allude to a few, which it is difficult to allocate satis- 
factorily, while the reader may be referred for other 
instances of like nature to the sections on Peloria, 
Atrophy, Suppression, Dimorphy, Substitutions, &c. 
Stasimorphy in the leaves of conifers—In many conifers 
the leaves produced in the young state of the plant 
are different, both in arrangement and form, from 
those subsequently developed (see pp. 89, 90). But it 

Fie. 115.—Juniperus sinensis. Two forms of leaves on branches of 
the same shrub. 
