5/6 



MAHSlLEAtJE/E. 



4. Ripe sporule, like sugar plums in colour. 



5. Transverse section of do. 



6. Innermost membranous coat enclosing the starch 



granules. 



7. Very young leaf and female organ. 



8. Do. more advanced. 

 8a. Part of the same. 



9. One of the large cells separated, they appear to have no 



decided attachment. 



10. Very small ditto from the same cells, imbedded in the 

 brown soft reproductive ? tissue. 



11. 1-500 No. 9. 



12. Two young sporula belonging to section 1. PI. CXVL 

 (Lower division.) 



13. Part of leaf and female more advanced. 



14. Brown reproductive tissue, each of the lax cells is 

 faintly nuclear, the most lax are not to be found 

 when the fruit is advanced. 



PI. CXVI. {Lower division.) 



1. Transverse section of female reproductive organ, to this 

 belongs sporula 12. PI. CXVI. (Upper division.) 



2. Do. more advanced. 



3. Sporula of the same. 



4. Sporula not entirely separated, such as is often the case. 



5. Represents two sporula less advanced, enclosed in the 

 entire parent cell, and emitting the nucleary matter, in- 

 side ! ! 



6. One ditto burst spontaneously, the bursting does not 

 take place at the points or angles, but in the face, and 

 is generally, though not always confined to one ; the 

 quite free one of fig. 6, has burst at 3 places. 



7. Another do. spontaneously burst; 7 nucleus, escaped 

 from a spore, and has assumed a spherical form. 



8* Spore do. burst a little nucleary matter 250 remains. 

 8a. Ditto at a fissure of bursting 550. 



