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a beaded appearance, or sometimes one or two nuclei in the oth- 
spores glued or held together by a kind of mucilage. These 
threads which are more or less twisted are easily seen with a 
berry. How long these stylospores may retain their germinative 
power is unknown, but it is not likely that they hold it through 
the winter season. 
SPERMAGONIA.—The spermagonia have exactly the appear- 
ance of the pycnidia but are usuaily smaller, they are also far less 
numerous. Within the outer wall there is a clear zone from 
