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the contents of the fruit compared. Nowhere, in the abnormal 
was discovered in one-half o the fruit. It was 15 ¢ 
ances, oil drops. 
rtain differentiation ie the husk substance, ne in 
i one. he 
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up, as was remarked in of woody fibers. Each fiber is 
was to be found in the sterile nut. A microscopical 
examination disclosed no important differences in the bast cells 
ich make up any of the strands of either the perfect or the ab- 
normal husk. The difference in the relative thickness and stiff- 
ness seems entirely due to the number of cells in a strand 
It was found to weigh exactly half of the original amount, or 440 
