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WILL you allow me to call the attention of your readers to a sentence in Mr. Hemsley's review of Schimper's and Karsten's works on the mangrove vegetation? “Mangroves grown in soil free, or practically free, from chloride of sodium, develop foliage of less substance, furnished with a larger number of stomata.” If this means, as I understand it, that the change takes place immediately with the change in the conditions of growth, it would be very interesting to have further details; as the fact would furnish a very strong argument that the peculiarities in the mangrove vegetation are the result of the inheritance of acquired characters.
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BENNETT, A. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters. Nature 45, 53 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045053d0
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