Excerpt from Botanical Gazette, Vol. 36 The division of the pollen mother-cells took place this year (1901) in South Carolina on March 6th, and both divisions were found on the same day, even in the same cone, but the stages found in the same sporangium are not quite so different as Coulter and Chamberlain figure for Pinus Lan'a'o. Changes of the nucleus leading up to the first division were not present in my material, but good preparations of all stages during and subsequent to the metaphase of the first division show that the phenomena are Similar in all essential respects to those described in detail by Strasburger for Larix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.