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feet of the first plat examined, I found numerous glebal masses 

 attached to the stems and leaves of grass-plants (Fig. 170) ; and 

 around the second plat, which happened to be close to a small patch 



Fig. 170. — Glebal projectiles of Sphaerobolus stellatus found adhering to grass 

 haulms and leaves around a eow-dung plat in a pasture at the Manitoba Agri- 

 cultural College, Winnipeg, November 14, 1923. Natural size. 



of outlying bush, I found : (1 ) one glebal mass, on the upper side of 

 a horizontal leaf of a Wolf berry shrub {Symphoricarpos occidentalis) , 

 5 feet horizontally from the plat and 1 8 inches above the ground ; 



(2) one glebal mass, on a terminal twig of a Rose-bush, one foot 

 horizontally from the plat and 2 feet 1 inch above the ground ; 



(3) one glebal mass, on the stem of a Wolf berry bush, almost 



