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tents were much more fluid and homogeneous than those 

 of the corresponding algae not thus symbiotically related. 

 Palla (60) also spoke of the absence of cyanophycin gran- 

 ules in the gonidia of lichens. 



Warming (80) found a cell nucleus, and said that the 

 coloring matter permeated the whole of the protoplasm 

 except the nucleus, but in a few forms {Glaucocystis, Phrag- 

 monema) slightly developed chromatophores were present. 

 Cilia were wanting, but the filaments were sometimes self- 

 motile. 



Chodat and Malinesco ( 14) distinguished only one kind 

 of granule in Cylindrospermum and Tolypothrix, but such 

 granules were more abundant in the younger cells. They 

 said : "In the young cells they are differentiated in their pro- 

 toplasm. In the adult cells the maximum development is 

 reached. In the older filaments and those surrounded by a 

 thick wall they diminish greatly in number." Chodat (11) 

 in working on Chroococcus turgidus, concluded that the 

 central body arose from the vacuole or emulsion-like appear- 

 ance of the central part of the protoplasm, because the foun- 

 dation substance of the central bodies usually stained like the 

 peripheral protoplasm. It also had the same coloring matter 

 and could not be easily distinguished from a chromatophore. 

 He did not distinguish between slime balls, soluble starch, 

 and cyanophycin, which he found distributed either uni- 

 formly or only in the central body. He also found glyco- 

 gen. In division the separating wall was protoplasmic and 

 stained the same as the other protoplasm. It could not be 

 distinguished from that substance until later, when it be- 

 came a true cell wall. He therefore questioned strongly 

 the existence of a colorless central body and a colored crust 

 layer. Later Chodat (12) was able to stain the cyanophy- 

 cin granules and the central body a ruby color by means of 

 methylene blue, while still later, in a note published jointly 

 with Goldflus (13) they described "pseudo spores" in the 

 Cyanophyceae, which were ''completely stuffed with cyano- 

 phycin." 



