PLANT AFFINITIES 



He brings tokens out of an almost infinite past 

 to blend with the divergent tokens of another 

 ancestral stream no less ancient. 



And it is not strange if he feels a certain 

 impulse of elation when he reflects that his con- 

 scious efforts have thus brought together ancestral 

 tendencies that have long been separated and 

 that now will appear in new combinations — 

 stimulating such interplay of life-forces as 

 may bring into being plant forms that may be 

 described, without violence to the use of words, 

 as new creations. 



— That the intimate record of 

 cousinship, in all its grades, 

 should be permanently graven 

 in the protoplasm of every 

 living thing, is a thought-com- 

 pelling biological revelation. 



