Are Fungi Plants?

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Abstract
The arguments for including the fungi in the plant kingdom are reviewed and it is concluded that none of them is completely convincing. The various suggestions of a protozoan origin of the group are regarded as somewhat more in accord with present available evidence. It is recognized that it is, for the present, convenient to continue the traditional association with plants, but dogmatic assertions concerning phylogeny and implicit recognition of theories of relationship expressed in terminology are alike to be avoided.