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entire contents of the central portion of the collecting cell are passed; 

 it rapidly increases in size, the absorption of food material being 

 probably assisted by a zone of haustorial processes exactly similar 



Kj^- Fig. 5 



C i, the original collecting cell. *S' i, the spore proliferated from it. 

 C ii, Sii; C in, Siii; Civ, Siv; similar structures proliferated in succession 

 from C i. Ha, haustorial processes. 



to those developed apically on the young collecting cells, but in this 

 case arising about midway between the equatorial plane and the 

 pole of the spore remote from the collecting cell {Ha, figs. 3, 4 and 5). 



