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cells which give rise to legs in the tadpole of the frog. 

 The question arises: Why do notches in the leaf never 

 begin to grow while the leaf is attached to an intact 

 plant, and why do they grow when the leaf is isolated? 

 To this we are inclined to give an answer in the sense 

 of Bonnet, Sachs, 

 de Vries, and 

 Goebel, namely 

 that the flow of 

 (specific?) sub- 

 stances in the 

 plant determines 

 when and where 

 dormant buds or 

 anlagen shall be- 

 gin to grow. Such 

 substances may 

 originate or may 



be present in the leaf; but as long as it is connected 

 with a normal plant they will be carried by the cir- 

 culation to the growing points of the stem and of the 

 roots and they cannot reach the notches ; while when we 

 detach the leaf, either a new distribution or a new flow 

 of liquids will be established whereby the substances 

 reach some of the notches ; and in these notches new 

 roots and a new shoot will be formed. When we 

 cut off a leaf and put it into moist air, not all but only 

 a few of the notches will, as a rule, grow out (Fig. 16) ; 



Fig. 16. Growth of roots and shoots in a 



few notches of an isolated leaf 



of Bryophyttum ca'ycinum 



