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Experimental Morphology

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Manual of Pteridology

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Experimental Morphology is a branch of General or Causal Morphology1) which seeks by means of experiment to provide data for a consideration of problems dealing with the factors underlying the normal structure and development of plants. The question as to whether it can also contribute to the solution of evolutionary problems is an open one which will be discussed later. Such experimental data must always be taken in conjunction with the results of wide comparative examination of both the normal development and structure and of such deviations from the normal as occur naturally.

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Williams, S. (1938). Experimental Morphology. In: Verdoorn, F., et al. Manual of Pteridology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6111-6_3

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