99. Young spermatocyte, element x attached to one end of a long, fine spireme.

100. Coarser spireme stage.

101-103. Bouquet stage.

104-105. Later spireme stage.

106. Various forms assumed by the combined nucleolus and element x; last figure from a giant cell.

107. Segmenting spireme.

108. Similar stage to fig. 107, one chromosome longitudinally split; element x present.

Plate IV.