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The free nuclear period is common to all cycads, and 

 the earlier divisions seem to be nearly identical in all the 

 species I have been able to investigate; but after the 









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Fig. 63. — Dioon edule: a late free nuclear stage in the development 

 of the embryo. The remains of the ciliated band are shown at b. Highly 

 magnified. 



