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rich in protoplasmic contents, and this led Jeffrey to sus- 

 pect that a reinvestigation of Funkia with the aid of modern 

 technique would reveal a similar condition. The examination, 

 however, confirmed Strasburger's account, so that while the 

 general appearance of sections is much the same in the two 

 (cf. Figs. 99 and 100), it is established that in Funkia 

 the embryos come from the nucellus, while in Erythronium they 

 come from the fertilized egg. In Erythronium albidum Schaff- 



em 



e m 



D 



C 



FIG. 101. Limnocharis emarginata. A-C, three sections of one embryo, showing em- 

 bryo proper (e) and embryo-buds from suspensor (em) ; Z>, appearance of growing 

 point of stem (gp). After HALL. 82 



ner 72 found the same large, irregular, and much-lobed sus- 

 pensor, but it was associated with only one embryo. In Tulipa 

 Gesneriana Ernst 69 also observed the phenomenon of a massive 

 suspensor associated with one to six embryos, only one of which 

 usually persists. In these cases the Lili-um type of embryogeny 

 is obscured by the early and rapid growth of the suspensor 

 region of the proembryo, the embryonal cell appearing hardly 

 more than one of the cells of its free surface. In these cases 

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