” 
304. The Vegetable Individual, in its relation to Species. 
stem and its leaf or leaf-whorl.* Besides, the several members 
of the shoot are not ten. eine creations, but, developing 
successively ont of and over each other, they constitute a suc- 
of its stemlet with one or two leaves (cotyledons). Thus the 
shoot itself came to be regarded as a succession of individual 
be Nera members, built up one above the other, like the stories 
of a house. The earliest traces of this view may be found in 
Darwin s Phytologia ;} it was developed at a later pat in vari- 
ous ways and with various modifications : e.g. by Agardly}, En- 
gelmann,$ Steinheil|| and Gaudichaudl—the last of paren calls 
the member of the shoot elevated to the rank of an individ- 
ual vegetable being, “the phyton,” and ascribes to it not only 
a stem and leaves, but even a root, by which he imagines it is 
connected with the preceding phytons, as the first phyton ee 
embryonic plant) is connected with the ground. Steenstrup** 
and Forbestt employ a similar view for their ans of alter- 
nate generation in plants with that in the lower animals. 
But this restriction of vegetable individuality od ae stop 
here ; for even the members of the shoot, the “ phyta” or “sto- 
he 
view rabies Be tings ” back bh the shoot as 
‘han 9; wher well-defined sem-:member oe herbaceous 
P as are descri fitied eae aye ds, and hene 
t Agardh: Essai ~ réduire | -: Ph ysiologie oidiehe a be) principes fondamontar, 
1829, (ann. ~*~ Sci. t., tom. x 
ae . : de y™ thol. ays, ( 1 83 2) p-1 
Sia ? ndividualité dans le re vigétale. 1836. 
q ngewe og cherches mie t Oromcgeaia, la Physiologie ne 
pt On alternate Generation (1842), fora ried poe this pa ener 
work te: be supposed to be in every one’s hands, 
wt ew On the @ Morphology ogy of the reproductive payetom of Sotitarian dae mon 
Mag. of ‘at. Hist., v. xiv, fe 
Ea die Metamorphose der Phlanse wd th re Widereacher. Linnea, 
+ Af der Crarpfanse, (Wir Jahres 
1848), 
