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down in its apex also a nucleated mass of protoplasm, 

 and it passes this over into the egg-cell in the embryo- 



FiG. 35. Various stages in the development of the ovule. 

 n, nucellus ; i, i', integuments ; p, point of attachment 

 to placenta ; e, embryo-sac ; r, vascular cord supplying 

 ovule ; m, micropyle ; x, young embryo. (Partly after 

 Th. Hartig.) 



sac ; the union of the nucleus from the pollen-tube 

 with the nucleus of the egg-cell constitutes the act of 



K 



