CHAPTER XXXI

A CHAPTER ON VIVIPARY

The significance of vivipary.—The scale of germinative capacity.—A lost

habit with many inland plants.—The views of Goebel.–-The shrinking in

the course of ages of tropical swamp areas.—The variation in the

structures concerned with vivipary.—Abnormal vivipary.—Summary.

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