Abstract
THE attention of the readers of NATURE has already been directed towards recent work on the Lyco-podiacæ by the publication of a résumé of the researches of Dr. M. Treub, Director of the Botanic Gardens of Buitenzorg, Java. He is the first botanist who has succeeded in giving a connected account of the prothallus, sexual organs, and development of the embryo of any species of Lycopodium, and now his first paper, which dealt with L. cernuum, has been rapidly followed by a still more complete and successful study of L. Phlegmaria, L. It might be expected that the second paper would be in great measure a repetition of the first, but this is not so; and it may be regarded as one of the most interesting results of this very suggestive and luminous investigation that it brings into prominence the greatness of the possible differences in development of two plants which have hitherto passed, and will continue to pass, under the same generic name. The observations detailed in this second paper are so important in their bearings on our views regarding other allied forms that it is desirable that at least the more striking points should be recorded here.
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BOWER, F. Lycopods 1 . Nature 34, 145–146 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034145a0
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