. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. V] EXTERNAL RESEMBLANCE. 97 serve to illustrate the possibility of confusion not merely between different genera of the same family, but even between members of different classes or groups. The long slender branches of the Polygonum represented in (fig. 21) would naturally be referred ' to Equisetum in the absence of the flowers (fig. 20 B), or without a careful examination of the insignificant scaly leaves borne at. Fig. 22. Kaulfussia cesculifoUa Blume. From a specimen from Java in the British Museum herbarium. -J- nat. size
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. V] EXTERNAL RESEMBLANCE. 97 serve to illustrate the possibility of confusion not merely between different genera of the same family, but even between members of different classes or groups. The long slender branches of the Polygonum represented in (fig. 21) would naturally be referred ' to Equisetum in the absence of the flowers (fig. 20 B), or without a careful examination of the insignificant scaly leaves borne at. Fig. 22. Kaulfussia cesculifoUa Blume. From a specimen from Java in the British Museum herbarium. -J- nat. size. the nodes. The resemblance between Gasuarina and Ephedra and the British species of Equisetum, or such a tropical form as E. debile, speaks for itself. 7. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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