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SYMBIOSIS. 



much and become club-shaped or dichotomously branched 

 bodies without power of division, which may be designated 

 " bacteroids." ^ Brunchorst found the contents of the bacteroids 



Fig. 23. — Rhizobium teguminosarum, Root*tubercles on Robinia Fseudacacia 

 (V. Tubeuf phot.) 



to disappear at the time of the fruit-formation of the host- 

 plant. A small number of microbe-bodies still remain, according 

 to Frank's observations, capable of division, and these, after 



' According to MoUer, they undergo fatty degeneration. 



