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Botany and Zoology. 333 
‘and a like result was experienced in six experiments when the 
sporidia of G. fuscum var. globosum were used, and once when 
rieforme is not common, yet its so-called ecidium, R. lacerata, is 
very abundant, occurring at points where the teleutosporic form 
has never been found; and G@. conicum, if this species be accepted, 
is a southern form, while R. cornuta is distinctly northern in its 
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tions of the several species cannot be accepted as demonstrated ; 
and there is no little probability that the spermogonia produced 
tract from Trans. Connecticut Academy, vol. v, p. 318, wt 
. E. Verritt.—* observed in this species, as 
well as in Ommastrephes illecebrosus, numerous instances in whic 
Some of the suckers have been torn off and afterwards reproduced. 
In such examples new suckers of various sizes, from those that are 
Same individual. It seems to me possible that some of the speci- 
mens having the suckers on the tentacular arms unusually small, 
may have reproduced all those suckers, or still more likely, the 
entire arm. 
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more 
duced the lost parts. In such cases the restored portion is often 
and 
Where the old part joins the new there is often an abrupt change 
In size. Probably this difference would wholly disappear, after a 
r time 
“An unquestionable and most remarkable example of the re- 
production of several entire arms occurs in a small specimen taken 
ewport, R. L, Aug., 1880, This has the mantle 70" long, 
dorsal arms 22™ 3d pair of arms 30". The three upper es 
of arms are perfectly normal, but both the tentacular and both 
the ventral arms have evidently been entirely lost and then repro- 
