302 ALG.E 



these resting-cells have lain for some time dry, and then again been 

 flooded, the contents break up into four or eight zDospores, which invest 

 themselves with a cell-wall, and, in the course of a single day, divide, by 

 successive bipartitions, into an eight-celled coenobe, which again, during 

 the next night, gives birth to eight motile families. The enclosed 

 primordial cells of Stephanosphasra are of a bright green colour, fusi- 

 form, and are attached to an equator of the investing membrane at 

 both ends by branched strings of protoplasm. The whole family 

 rotates on an axis at right angles to the plane which passes through 

 them all. 



In Goriiiiin Mull, the ccenobe is a tabular aggregation of cells moving 

 rapidly through the water by the aid of vibratile cilia. Its life-history 

 has not been fully followed out, and very little is known of its mode of 



reproduction. 



Literature. 



Henfrey — Trans. Micros. Soc, 1856, p. 49. 



■Cohn& Wichura — (Stephanosphctra) Xova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur., xxvi. , Suppl. 1857, 



p. I (Quart. Journ. Micros. Sc. , 1858, p. 131). 

 Archer— Quart. Journ. ]\Iicros. Sc. , 1865, pp. 166, 185. 

 Cienkowski — Bot. Zeit. , 1865, p. 21. 



Pringsheim — Monber. Berlin Akad., 1869, p. 721 ; and Bot. Zeit., 1870, p. 265. 

 Token— Bot. Zeit., 187 1, p. 383. 



Rostafinski — Bot. Zeit., p. 785 ; and Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, 1875. 

 Goroshankin — Xachr. Gesell. Xaturf. Moskau, 1875. 

 Hieronymus - Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. , 1S74, p. -^i-^efseq. 

 Keinhard —Arbeit. Xaturf. Gesell. Charkoff, 1876. 

 Breal— Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1S86, p. 238. 

 Dangeard — (Chlamydomonas) Ann. Sc. Xat., vii., 1888, p. 105. 



Order 5. — Sorastre^e. 



In this order are included a few genera distinguished by the ccenobe 

 being unciliated. In Sorastriim Ktz. the colony consists of a more or 



Fig. 264. — So7-astruin spimc- 

 losnm Nag. ( x 400J. (After 

 Cooke.) 



Fig. 265.- Ccelastrjim cubiaim Nag. 

 ( X 6od). (From nature.) 



less spherical aggregation of closely-packed, horned or bifid, somewhat 



