Excerpt from The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, for the Year 1961, Vol. 1: Pp. 1-168, Containing the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting and Papers Read in March-April The study of cellular structure and activity in apical meristems Of vegetative shoots Of vascular plants has become prominent during the last thirty years. The taxonomic coverage is now so Wide that authors have attributed taxonomic significance to types of apex. After looking for comparisons and relationships in the many records, it seemed to me that too little recognition has been given to mere size, to age of plant, and to seasonal cycle. Apices of some different sorts of plants are so greatly different in size that the mechanics Of the one must be very different from the mechanics of the other. In many cases, the records, particularly in the gymnosperms. Are unspecified or fragmentary - to a degree that makes comparison dubious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.