In the young strobile the two purple hairy styles (e) of each ovary project beyond the bracts.
The catkin or strobile consists of a number of small acute bracts, with two sessile ovaries at their base, each subtended by a rounded bractlet (c).
Both the bracts and bractlets enlarge greatly during the development of the ovary, and form, when fully grown, the membranous scales of the strobile (fig.
The joints of the immature strobile are well formed, but exhibit no trace of sexual organs.
Rarely attaining a length of 1/3″, the perfect strobile is made up of only three proglottides in addition to the head, the lowermost segment being sexually mature.
It is not possible to estimate the length of the worm accurately, but the perfect strobile must measure several feet.
Of the distinctiveness of this parasite as a species, any one may satisfy himself by an inspection of the nearly complete strobile preserved in the Pathological Museum attached to the Middlesex Hospital Medical College.
Section of the strobile of Bothriocephalus proboscideus.
The strobile measured only two or three inches in length, and showed a uniserial disposition of the reproductive pores.
Very remarkable and altogether exceptional characters are presented by the strobile of the cestode described by Mr Cullingworth, of Manchester, and of which I possess specimens.
Whilst Tænia plicata acquires a length of three feet, the strobile of T.
Cases of this kind, wherein the flowers of a pea and of the foxglove were replaced by collections of small ovate green scales packed one over the other till they resembled the strobile of a hop, have been already alluded to.
In the strobile of the hop, Humulus Lupulus, a like elongation may sometimes be met with, generally in association with a more or less leafy condition of some of the scales.
The female scales or carpels when ripe form a strobile or cone (d), and in the Scotch Pine they are thickened at the tip (e in fig.
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