A large proportion of the higher plants are Microphyllous in comparison with the highly megaphyllous fern-like forms from which they appear to have been derived.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others
There is no indication of their derivation from a Microphyllous ancestry, though, as we shall see, there is some slight evidence for the converse hypothesis.
"Darwin and Modern Science"
A.C. Seward and Others