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A Journal of General Botany 



VOLUME 21 

 NUMBER 1 



JANUARY, 1918 



CONTAINING 



The Native Bananas of the Hawaiian Islands 



Vaughan MacCaughey 1 



The Imbibitional Swelling of Marine Algae 



J. M. McGee 13 



Books and Current Literature 16 



Notes and Comment 23 



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Entered as second-class matter March 9, 1912, at the post office at Baltimore, Maryland, under the act of Jiily 16, 1694 



