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By P. F. Fyson. 

 [With Plate IX.] 



I lie Pine-apple as is well known consists of an 

 of numerous spirally placed flowers, the perianths of 

 contiguous and form the edible row*. ~t +u~ t„„:*. 



aggregate 

 which are 



Notice. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX 



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DIRECTION FOR BINDING. 



To face Plate IX of the Journal and Proceedings of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, New Series, Vol. XIII, 1917, JNO. o, 

 p. 254. 



multinucloar " plasmodial " bodies 



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parasitic fungi, and a somewhat similar phyllody of grain - 



Plants is known to be due to various species of Sclerospora. 

 0n e of the Oomycetes. I have not been able to find any record 

 01 phyllody being traced to a plasmodiu in , as appears to ha ve 

 °een the case here. 



