This same genus I consider in both these characters to allude to some analogy with one or more Acrogenous divisions.
Of acrogenous leaves, those only are leaves whose attachment is at right angles with the stem; the rest are divisions of a frond.
In this reign the Acrogenous species are less numerous; the Gymnosperms almost equal them in number, and ordinarily surpass them in frequency.
In the present day, acrogenous plants are represented by cellular and vascular Cryptogams.
This Acrogenous flora, then, seems to favour the idea of a humid as well as mild and equable climate at the period of the coal formation--the vegetation being that of islands in the midst of a vast ocean.
For a fuller account of Acrogenous plants, see Balfour's Class Book of Botany, p.
This establishes the opinion that Sigillaria was an acrogenous plant belonging to Lycopodiaceæ.
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