Excerpt from Botanical Gazette: Volume 45 and 46; March to December, 1908 In his account of Adiantum and Aspidium, thom finds that when the sperm reaches the nuclear membrane, the nuclear part of the sperm finds or breaks an opening into the egg nucleus and cytoplasmic envelope, while the blepharoplast and the cilia are left out in the cyto plasm of the egg. Whether blepharoplast and cilia are left out in the cytoplasm shaw leaves in doubt. 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.