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dividing it into 2, 3 or 4 smaller divisions, giving the lodge 
an aspect something like that of a pecten shell. The septa be- 
tween the lodges carry very many stiff, spearlike hairs just 
like those of the disc. The superior ring ot 
the column is 4 mM. broad and closely 
crowded with very much more pronounced 
and massive than I have seen it in the fully 
Fig. 16. developed female flowers. The colour is dark 
brown red, the surface is wrinkled and is crowded with short, 
dark hairs, arranged in tangential rows. The ramenta are soft, 
succulent and broad at the top, where their surface is secretive 
and covered with a layer of a mucilagenous substance. At the 
base of the perigoneal tube the ramenta are simple, but the 
higher situated ones are ramified and often antlerlike with up 
to 15 ends. Upon the diaphragm innumerable quite small, black, 
slightly depressed marks are found between the white patches; 
they are about 1 mM. across. 3 
DURATION OF DEVELOPMENT OF BUDS. 
The time available has not allowed me to follow one bud 
from its first beginning to its stage of maturity but | have 
observed very many buds of all stages for in some cases many 
- weeks, and made exact notes about their growth. I realize, that 
the worth of my observations as to the growth of the buds is 
only relative, but I think they are able to give some informa- 
tion, which can be of use for the time being. Later observers 
without doubt will follow the development of individual buds 
from the beginning to the end in absolutely protected and iso- 
lated growing places. 
The following tabulation gives an idea of the growth of a 
number of buds in growing places; in which as far as known 
to me nobody interfered with the natural proces or during the 
period of observation : 
