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The fertilizing cell, its varying form and behavior by Nelly Peery, 1890

The fertilizing cell, its varying form and behavior by Nelly Peery, 1890, Page 86

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page 84 [sideways data table:] { Plants observed } { Size of cell (mm) }{ Hours of Germination }{ Fertilizing Agent }{ Remarks } --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- { Euphorbia [apparissiae?] } { 8-10 mm }{ } { insects } { Beautifully trilobed; did not germinate } { Antennaria plantaginifolia } { 11-13 mm } { 24 hours } { insects } { Very rough and irregular; few germinated; tube coiled 1/4 around the grain, then off at a tangent } { Lonicera tartarica} { 22-[23? 25?] mm } { } { insects } { Round grains, covered with spines; did not germinate } { Pinus [pylvestris?] } { 23-25 by 12-15 mm } { 4 days } { wind } { Peculiar enlargements of the outer coat of cell wall, filled with air, for aid in transportation; Pl. VIII figure 4, tubes 50 mm often was from one grain or one branched.}
 
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