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Figure 21. Difflugia corona; portions of four families, to show the 

 inheritance of the diverse combinations of characters. All individuals 

 of any column are descendants of the one at the top. The num- 

 bers at the top are the designations of the different families. Ob- 

 serve that in family 198 all are small, but with numerous spines; in 

 197, they are larger, but with few spines. In 324> the individuals are 

 large, with large spines; in 323 they are of about the same size, but 

 with small spines. The families remain true to such peculiarities, no 



