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FOR some considerable time, the widely held belief in the slow development of bracken plants and the initiation of the frond many months in advance of its expansion has been suspect. The idea of the old German morphologists1,2,3 of the unfolding of one frond and the growth of one internode of the frond-bearing rhizomes in a season does not fit in with the rapid rate of expansion of the plants seen in the field.
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BRAID, K., CONWAY, E. Rate of Growth of Bracken. Nature 152, 750–751 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152750b0
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