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MORPHOLOG y. 



fertilization, is the egg cell. In those cases where the brown body 



with a thick wall is present fertilization has taken place, and this 



body is the /eriih'zed egg, or oospore. It contains 



large quantities of an oily substance, and, like 



Fig. 95- 



Portion o f 

 thread of cedo- 

 gonium, show- 

 ing chlorophyll 

 grains, and pe- 

 culiar cap cell 

 walls. 



CEdogonium iindulatum, with oogonia and dwarf males ; 

 the upper oogonium at the right has a mature oospore. 



the fertilized egg of spirogyra and vaucheria, is able to with- 

 stand greater changes in temperature than the vegetative stage, 

 and can endure drying and freezing for some time without 

 injury. 



In the oogonium wall there can frequently be seen a rift near 

 the middle of one side, or near the upper end. This is the 



