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IIl'REDITY AND EVOLUTION IN PLANTS 



into foliage-leaYes. Similar results were also obtained by 

 Goebel. These experiments indicate that foliage-leaves 

 and sporophylls are very closely related to each other, 



Fig. i6. — -Portion of a leaf of a fern {Tectoria cicutariq) that bears 

 bulbils on both the upper and lower surfaces of its leaves. Plantlets 

 develop from the bulbils while they are still attached. 



and demonstrate clearly that foliage-leaves may be pro- 

 duced by the sterilization of spore-bearing leaves. The 

 interesting question here naturallyjarises as to whether, in 

 the evolutionary development of the plant kingdom 



