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ABSTRACT BEFORE instituting a comparison it is generally prudent to ascertain that the things to be compared are comparable. I am afraid Mr. Comber, who has done me the honour of making some
remarks on what I have said in the pages of NATURE on the primordial type of flowers, has neglected this precaution. If I understand him rightly, he suggests that the “spike” of
_Selaginella_ is the hornologue of the spike of _Carex pulicaris_. He compares, then, the scales bearing macrosporangia of the former with the lower glumes bearing each an ovary of the
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