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160 which is shown closely attached to the rostellum in the accompanying figure A.

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. (From a sketch by Fritz Müller.)

The pedicel when freed suddenly bends into the form represented at B, and soon afterwards owing to the hygrometric contraction curls up into the odd figure shown at C. When placed in water it resumes the form represented at B.