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ASSUMING, as generally known, the main facts of Leaf-arrangement—the division into the whorled and spiral types, and in the latter more especially the establishment of the convergent series of fractions, 1/2, 3/8, 5/13, 8/21, 13/34, 21/55, 34/89, 55/144, &c., as representatives of a corresponding series of spiral leaf-orders among plants—we have to ask what is the meaning that lies hidden in this law?
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On Leaf-Arrangement * . Nature 7, 343–344 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007343a0
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