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SIDNEY F. HARMER. 



situated on the side on which the Last branch is developed, 

 thus causing the position of the basal zocecium of the next 

 internode, and consequently of the first branch of that inter- 

 node, to be on the opposite side. 



Just as C. eburnea is, on the whole, characterised by 

 branching from z-^, so this species may be said to branch nor- 

 mally from z^, or to produce branches on the type (?'«+„+2'')^ 

 where n usually represents z^ or z-^^. 



The extent to which this must be taken as a general rule 

 may be understood by the following analysis of the complete 

 formula of a well-developed colony : 



(1) Interuodes with oue braucli, originating from z„ 



(2) Branches arranged on the type (^2+4^ • 



(3) „ „ „ (^i+3»-) or {r^+,r) 



(4) „ „ „ (''2+2O 



(5) „ „ „ {r,+sr) 



(6) „ » „ (^1+2^) 



(7) „ „ „ (^3+4^) 



(8) One branch only, originating from Zi 



(9) » „ „ ^3 



(10) „ „ „ z^ 



(11) )> » » ^5 



Number of Cases. 



24 

 5 

 5 

 1 

 5 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 8 

 7 

 3 



Total number of internodes which iiad developed branches 63 

 Only eight of the completely developed internodes were 

 branchless. Thus in this particular colony, in which no ovi- 

 cells were present, and in which no iuternode possessed more 

 than two branches — 

 30 p. c. of the branching internodes bore two branches ; 

 38 p. c. ,, ,, „ one branch, originating from z„. 



32 p. 0. „ „ ,, „ „ from other 



zocecia. 



100 p. c. 



Or, adding together Nos. 1 to 4, the cases in which the branches 

 come off from Zo, or in which the second branch is two zooecia 

 higher than the first, we find that these cases amount to 55*5 

 per cent, of the total number of branching interuodes, and this 

 may be taken as a case which does not exaggerate this feature 

 of the branching. 



