134 THE DIRECT INFLUENCE 



These two successes had been scored by the use 

 of crude instruments, entire lack of information 



Schematic section of ovule showing action of reagent, intro- 

 duced into ovary, mi, micropyle, P, egg, o, antipodal nuclei, i, 

 inner Integument. The reagent is taken up by the micropylar 

 cells, and also follows the stream of nutritive material around 

 the inner integument to the neighborhood of the antipodal cells. 



