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— quite within reach of its citizens. Let us hope that the few great 
woods which survive above Santa Cruz may form an annex to this 
reservation. Unless something of this kind is speedily done, one of the 
peculiar glories of the state of California will in the next century be only 
a tradition.’ 
are grouped under the heads of defect, excess, or perversion of the natural 
rocess of development, using the following terms: oligomery (a dim- 
erous condition being the commonest), pleiomery (usually increased lips 
or stamens), partition (in which primarily simple organs become divided 
by fission), displacement, and peloria (tendency towards regularity). 
investigations have proved that each stage of growth in turn comes from 
the growth of the spores of the other stage. This is called alternation of 
spring, expanding into conspicuous, yellow, jelly-like masses. The Tt that 
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