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PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



When the spores of Cutleria germinate, they are in essence 

 nothing but floating trichomes giving off trichomic rootlets. 



Fig. 114 is a portion of the branched antheridium of Cutleria 

 multifida, Grev. (Thuret, pi. 9). If the capsules containing the 



Fig. 114. Branched autlieridium of Cullcria inxdtijida : (a) capsules filled 

 with antherozoids, (6) empty capsule (enlarged). 



antherozoids aborted, the whole might be indistinguishable from a 

 glandular hair. The capsules are sub-divided into chambers, by 

 transverse and also longitudinal walls. The resulting cells contain 

 antherozoids, which, morphologically, are nothing but pollen 

 ff rains. 



In the female conceptacle of Fucus serratus there are barren 

 hairs, which I take to be atrophied male organs. In the male 

 conceptacle there are branching hairs whicli boar antheridia, 



