Abstract
SUMMARY These investigations were carried on in the Botanical Laboratory of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N. C., during the summer of 1937 under the direction of Professor John N. Couch, to whom the writer is deeply grateful for help and advice. The writer also wishes to extend her sincere thanks to the University of North Carolina and to Dr. W. C. Coker, Head of the Department of Botany, for laboratory privileges granted to her, to Dr. J. S. Karling of Columbia University for his help in the final revision of the manuscript and to Mr. Leland Shanor of the University of North Carolina for his assistance with the photography.

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