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A NATURALIST IN THE PACIFIC 



CHAP. 



By referring to the table below it will be observed that there is 

 no period of rest in the growth of the fruit up to the date of the 

 protrusion of the radicle. It will now be shown that there is 

 normally no pause between the epoch of the maturation of the 

 seed and the beginning of germination, or, in other words, that 

 from the time of the fertilisation of the ovule to the onset of 

 germination there is no cessation in the process of growth of the 

 embryo. That period of dormant vitality which almost all seeds 

 pass through forms no normal feature in the life-history of this 

 species of Rhizophora. 



Rhizophora mangle and R. mucronata. 



