OEDOGONIUM 129 
Sweden. 
Readily characterized by its short barrel-shaped vegetative 
cells, often alternating with oogonia. 
140. Oc. kitute G.S. West. 
1907, p. 98. 
Dioecious, nannandrous; oogonium 1-2, subglobose or obovate- 
globose, pore superior; oospore globose, not filling oogonium, spore wall 
smooth; terminal cell obtuse; dwarf male elongate, slightly curved, 
smaller below, situated on oogonium or suffultory cell; antheridium 
interior (?); vegetative cell 26 130-180u; oogonium 76-78 x 75-80y; 
oospore 72X72u; suffultory cell 44 132u; dwarf male 12-13 x 58-66u. 
Africa. 
West has left no figure for this species. It is to be com- 
pared with Oe. borisianum (No. 138) and Oe. silvaticum (No. 
ae 
141. Oe. victoriense G. S. West. 
(Pl. XLIX, fig. 473.) 
In Hardy 1906, p. 22; West 1909, p. 47, Pl. 6C. 
Dioecious, nannandrous, gynandrosporous; oogonium 1, ellipsoid- 
globose to ellipsoid-doliiform, pore superior; oospore exactly globose, not 
filling oogonium, spore wall smooth; androsporangium 5-6 celled; 
dwarf male on suffultory cell, stipe curved, antheridia 2; suffultory 
cell broadly dilated; vegetative cell 25-29 x 50-87; oogonium 49 X 57y; 
oospore 39X39u; androsporangium 25-26 4-8y; antheridium 7-8 
4—5uy. ; 
Africa (Victoria). 
Resembles Oe. crassiusculum, below, but has single oogonia, 
nearly exactly globose oospores, and smaller oogonia. 
142. Oe. crassiusculum Wittrock. 
(Pl. XLIX, fig. 474.) 
1870, p. 132, 1874, p. 24; Cooke 1884, p. 162, P1. 60, fig. 5; Hirn 1900, p. 215. 
Dioecious, nannandrous, gynandrosporous; oogonium 1-2, globose- 
obovoid or subglobose, pore superior; oospore ellipsoid-globose or 
globose, spore wall smooth and thickened, quite filling oogonium; 
androsporangium 2-5; dwarf male suberect, on or near suffultory cell, 
antheridium exterior, 1-?; vegetative cell 27-3095-105y; oogonium 
54-60 X60-75u; oospore 51-57X52-63y; androsporangium 26-28 x 
10—-18y; dwarf male 13X60y; antheridium 7-9 x 9-16y. 
United States: Ohio, Mississippi, Connecticut; Australia; 
England, Sweden. 
