22 Kingo Miyabe . — On the Life-history of 
highly refractive contents, made their appearance mostly 
towards the outer edge of the mycelium. These branches 
were produced close to the under-surface of the cover-glass, 
from which a drop of the culture-fluid was hanging. Fig. 17 
represents one of the typical forms. Two cells at the ex- 
tremities were still hyaline. Each of them sent out a branch, 
the lower one touching the upper. Two days after, it pre- 
sented an unexpected appearance, as shown in Fig. 18. The 
upper of the two hyaline cells grew and divided, and produced 
a stout branch almost at a right angle. This branch produced 
again another branch at about a similar angle. As to the two 
branches mentioned in the first stage, the upper one did not 
grow, while the lower grew straight on and anastomosed with 
another hypha. The cells were soon filled with fatty globules, 
and ceased to grow. The cell-wall began to assume a 
brownish colour after some days. The whole arrangement 
remained unchanged until the end of the culture. 
At another part of the same culture a similar process (Fig. 
19) was watched. Here apparently two branches from the 
adjoining cells formed close spirals ; and already several 
branches were formed upon them. During the next twenty- 
four hours a great change took place. A stout branch 
made a remarkable growth, and produced (at Fig. 20 b) a 
fast-growing branch, and (at c) a spiral process, which is 
represented highly magnified in Fig. 21. Two days after, 
two strong branches were found proceeding from the spiral 
process (Fig. 22). As in the first case, the cells became filled 
with fatty globules and stopped their growth. Fig. 23 repre- 
sents one of the simpler forms of these peculiar bodies. 
On the hyphae of the ascospores, these abnormal processes 
were produced more abundantly. But the spiral process was not 
observed. Here most of the branches swelled at their basal 
portions and divided into a row of a few large rounded cells. 
From the tip of the branches, a hyaline slender hypha, which 
was commonly slightly club-shaped at the end, was pro- 
duced. The process at this stage resembled most remark- 
ably a trichogyne and archicarp of some simple Floridean. 
