154 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ July, 
3. The band was almost entirely destitute of nodules. 
4. The specimens were collected in November and De- 
cember. é 
The fact of the parts of the band coiling, or showing @ 
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tendency to coil, about certain points suggested the possibil- 
ity of these points being ‘centers of growth.” Although 
erable degree of tension. Pressure 
chanical violence than cutting, disintegrated the band com- 
pletely, and never gave the results indicated above. 
igs. 1, 2 and 3 will, perhaps, illustrate the results more 
clearly than the description. The figures are drawn simply 
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to illustrate the appearances, and are not drawn to any eee 
g.1is shown the only case in which, in a series 0 — 
some hundreds of slides, the nucleus was seen after the band 
was broken up. par 
Ig. 2 gives a case in which there were four turns of the 
band to the cell, and also shows a peculiar condition in cells” 
3 and 4, 1n which the rotoplasm is gathered about the coils _ 
as indicated by the lighter shading, and seems to bind th 
together. 
Cf. Sachs, 2d Eng. ed., p. 48, 
