Teratology in the Flowers of Two Californian Willows (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In degree of anatomical intimacy, the hermaphroditism seen in the monstrous floral organs, - where the seats of pollen-sac and ovule-production are so very close together on one phyllome. - is analogous to that bisexualism occasionally found in the common frog, where a testis may have an anterior ovarian por tion, or an ovary be anteriorly replaced by a testis.

These cases, then, of sexual abnormality among plants, like the similar instances among animals, bear upon various general questions of sex - is hermaphroditism the primitive condition in all organisms; and are male and female sex-elements, - micro Spores and macrospores, sperm and ova, - universally devel oped by differentiation of sexless cells, or, better perhaps, of cells potentially of either sex; and so on. The facts here noted may prove of interest in some such connection.

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