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bapananese!, 
GENERAL NOTES. 
BOTANY.! 
Nageli’s theory, however, seemed to be firmly established ee! 
the following properties of starch-grains: (1) Their being ae? 
up of regularly alternating more and less watery layers, the. 
the large ones, the first being very dense, the latter very wae 
(3) Their unequal growth in different directions. (4) The gon 
of compound and half compound grains being, according 
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