NUMBER 4 
SOTANICAL GAZETTE 
; OCTOBER, 1900 
AND NUCLEAR DIVISION IN FULIGO 
VARIANS. 
R. A. HARPER. 
(WITH PLATE XIV) 
knowledge of such important vital phenomena of the 
Cetes, as the formation of the spores and the capilli- 
im, and nuclear and cell division, is still based quite largely 
the data given in the single paper published by Strasburger 
(23) in 1884, 
‘Strasburger Studied Trichia fallax, and his main conclusions 
Mat the nuclei divide karyokinetically just before spore 
med by simultaneous breaking up of the multinucleated 
eg hyaline lines into uninucleated spores. Strasburger 
«Ss in the development of the sporanges simultaneously. 
Mentions also that the sporangia require several days to 
after their first appearance. 
a describes the capillitium, which in 7richia fallax 
lon 
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‘Material on decaying stumps, and speaks of finding 
‘on, the capillitium is formed in vacuoles, and the spores 
