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Fig. S. Characium cylindricum, cell developed into sporangium containing 
many small spores. 
Fig. 9. Characium gracilipes, distal (x) and basal (z) ends of cell containing 
64 spores; distal and basal cells divided transversely; other cells 
divided longitudinally. 
Figs. 10, 11, 12 and 13. Characium cylindricum, unicellular stage; n, nucleus; 
ol, oil globules; two parietal chromatophores. 
Fig. 14. Characium gracilipes, base of stipe, 2 rhizoids оп one side. 
Fig. 15. Characium gracilipes, base of stipe, two rhizoids, one of which is 
hooked. 
Fig. 16.  Characium gracilipes, base of stipe, two rhizoids dependent like 
pitch-fork. 
Fig. 17. Characium gracilipes, base of stipe, 2 rhizoids, both hooked. 
Fig. 18. Characium gracilipes, 2 rhizoids with numerous short branches. 
Fig. 19. Characium gracilipes, 3 rhizoids, an unusual type. 
Fig. 20. Characium gracilipes, 2 rhizoids, one shorter than the other. 
Fig. 21. Characium gracilipes, 2 rhizoids with slight roughenings. 
Fig. 22. Characium gracilipes, 2 rhizoids, the longest observed. 
Fig. 283. Characium cylindricum, perforated distal end of cell containing 
spores; h, aperture. 
Fig. 24. Characium cylindricum, cell containing 8 protoplasts, a typical 
specimen; n, nucleus. 
Fig. 25. Characium cylindricum, a, base of cell attached to under side of 
main shaft of hair; c, base of cell attached to upper surface of main 
shaft of hair; b, base of cell attached to three of the smaller hairs. 
BanroN1A.— In hearty sympathy with every effort to give scholarly 
record to local floras we welcome the appearance of another American 
periodical, devoted as it appears chiefly to questions of taxonomy and 
plant-distribution. ‘The new Bartonia, happily named and like most 
other Bartonias an annual, is edited by Mr. Stewardson Brown, who 
with Messrs. Joseph Crawford and Witmer Stone forms the Publi- 
cation Committee of the Philadelphia Botanical Club. Its aims are 
to record in abstract the proceedings of the club and print short articles 
relating to the flora of the region about Philadelphia. The issue at 
hand is an admirably printed and completely indexed imperial octavo 
of 32 pages. In addition to introductory matter, the proceedings, 
history, and membership-list of the club, it contains the following 
articles: Botanica! Trips to Northampton Co., Pa., by S. S. Van Pelt; 
Some Sand Dune Plants from Longport, N. J., by Joseph Crawford; 
and The Coastal Strip of New Jersey and the Rediscovery of Lilaeop- 
sis, by Witmer Stone.  Bartonia, dealing as it does with a flora closely 
related to that of our southwestern limits, will assuredly prove sugges- 
tive and interesting to botanists of New England.— B. L. R. е 
