_1Ёробфога 
JOURNAL OF À 
Vol. 10. April, 1908. No. 112. 
OEDOGONIUM HUNTII REDISCOVERED? 
Е. S. COLLINS. 
IN the American Naturalist, Vol. 1, p. 517, 1868, is an article en- 
titled ““А botanical excursion in my office" in which Horatio C. Wood 
describes in a popular way a number of minute plants appearing in an 
aquarium. Figures of some of them are given, 3, 4, 5 & 7 representing 
an Oedogonium, no species being indicated by name. Іп А Prodromus 
of a Study of the Fresh water Algae of North Eastern North America, 
Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. X, p. 333, 1869, the same writer proposes 
the name of Oedogonium Hunt for the plant. This Prodromus 
was followed by the more elaborate А Contribution to the History of 
the Fresh-Water Algae of North America,! Smithsonian Contributions 
to Knowledge, Vol. XIX, 1874. In this the genus Oedogonium is 
broken up into several genera, and our species appears as Androgynia 
Huntii Wood. There is no reference to the Prodromus, but only 
" Syn.-Oedogonium Huntii Wood, American Naturalist, 1868"; as 
we have seen, no such name appears in that periodical. Plate XVII, 
fig. 2, however, evidently represents the same thing as the figure in 
the Naturalist, and the text, p. 198, speaks of the alga as occurring 
in Wood's aquarium. 
There seems to be nothing more known of the plant; Wolle? con- 
denses Wood's description and copies his figures; Wittrock? adds 
nothing. DeToni‘ puts the description into Latin. Hirn? sum- 
1 So reads the title page; the running title throughout is Fresh-Water Algae of the 
United States, and this latter form is very generally used in citations referring to the 
work. 
2 Fresh Water Algae of the U. S., p. 85, Pl. LXXXIV, fig. 9, 1887. 
3 Oedogonieæ Americans, hucusque cognite; Bot. Notiser, р. 136, 1878. 
4 Sylloge Algarum, Vol. I, p. 60, 1889, 
5 Monographie und Iconographie der Oedogoniaceen, Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fen- 
nicae, Vol. XX VII, p. 208, 1900. 
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