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SIR JOHN LUBBOCK said that, greatly as we all appreciated the exquisite loveliness of flowers, we must admit that the beauty of our woods and fields was as much due to the marvellous grace and infinite variety of foliage. How is this inexhaustible richness of forms to be accounted for? Does it result from an innate tendency of the leaves in each species to assume some particular shape? Has it been intentionally designed to delight the eyes of man? Or has it reference to the structure and organisation, the wants and requirements of the plant itself?
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The Forms of Leaves 1 . Nature 31, 398–399 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031398a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/031398a0