. Heredity and evolution in plants . FIG. 91.—Stangeria paradoxa Moore. Specimen from the cycad houseat the New York Botanical Garden, bearing, at the apex of the stema carpellate cone. (Photo from New York Botanical Garden.) connection. So closely does it resemble a certain fern(Lomaria) that the botanist Kunze, who first described itwhen it was brought from Natal to the botanic garden atChelsea, England, supposed it was a fern, and named itLomaria eriopus. The specimen possessed no fruit, whichwould have helped to identify it. Its leaves, with circinate 1 Stangeria paradoxa Moore = Stangeria

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. Heredity and evolution in plants . FIG. 91.—Stangeria paradoxa Moore. Specimen from the cycad houseat the New York Botanical Garden, bearing, at the apex of the stema carpellate cone. (Photo from New York Botanical Garden.) connection. So closely does it resemble a certain fern(Lomaria) that the botanist Kunze, who first described itwhen it was brought from Natal to the botanic garden atChelsea, England, supposed it was a fern, and named itLomaria eriopus. The specimen possessed no fruit, whichwould have helped to identify it. Its leaves, with circinate 1 Stangeria paradoxa Moore = Stangeria eriopus (Kunze) Nash. 208 HEREDITY AND EVOLUTION IN PLANTS vi-rnaiion. have a pinnately compound blade, and leafletswith pinnate dichotomous venation. Two or three yearslater another botanist, examining it more closely, pro-nounced it a fern-like Zamia or a Zamia-like facts show how puzzling the specimen was, and how (S no ). S36fl«.

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