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Dr. Masters'referred to Caruel's explanation of the analogy 

 between the pulp-cells and epidermal hairs. 



Dr. Bonavia 'further referred in support of his views to the 

 disc or outgrowth from the axis which characterises the flowers 



Fig. 45. — Trees Split by Frost. — (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



of the Orange and its allies, as also of the Moutan Paeony and 

 other plants. 



Professor Church commented on the development, in the 

 absence of light, of the colouring matter as well as of the oily 

 constituents as exemplified in these specimens. 



Dr. Masters did not consider that the disc had anything to 



