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much more rapidly, while the growth of the terminal portion 

 (which is, in fact, the original cotyledon) becomes gradually 



FIG. 108. Eucharidium grandiflorum : showing final form of 

 cotyledons. Nat. size. 



arrested. The tooth becomes more marked (fig. 107), and by 

 the tenth day the new portion is obtusely bidentate or crenate, 

 and nearly equals the original cotyledon in size. 



