Book Review
nature 56, 4-7 (06 May 1897) | doi:10.1038/056004a0
Die Bedingungen der Fortpflanzung bei einigen Algen u Pilzen
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IT has long been recognised that in the life cycle of a large number of plants and also of some animals two very distinct modes of reproduction, the sexual and the asexual, recur in a rhythmical fashion. This fact, crystallised by Steenstrup in his famous doctrine of alternation of generations, has ranked as one of cardinal importance in the treatment of the higher groups of plants ever since Hofmeister showed that the sequence of events in their several life-histories was essentially identical with that obtaining in a moss or in a fern.
