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bodies it may be urged that the globose form, and absence of 

 movement, are unusual with known spermatia. And again, 

 the fact of their power of germination, or rather of budding, is 

 opposed to their possessing the function of spermatia. Cornu 

 found that the so-called spermatia budded in the manner of 

 Saccharomyces. In saccharine solutions they behave in a very 

 similar manner to yeast spores, or analogous to the concatenate 

 production of cells in the Ustilagineae. 



It has also been suggested that in the aecidium stage the 

 conjugation of two swollen hyphae of the mycelium takes place, 

 from which the whole aecidial cup is produced as the result of 

 a sexual act. This again requires careful confirmation before 

 it can be accepted as more than a hypothesis. In the subse- 

 quent stages of uredospore and teleutospore no sexual act has 

 been discovered, and at present we are l)ound to admit that in 

 the Uredineae sexuality has not been proven. 



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