126 NOTES ON NEMAS 



words "gone" and gome" from 70^05. Primarily the word "gone" 

 refers to the generative portion of a sexual organ. By metonomy 

 "gone" designates an organism or species having gones; thus we have 

 two kinds of organisms "gones" and "agones." 



From "gone" come the verb "to gone," and the substantives "syn- 

 gone," "digone," "amphigone," "homogone," and "heterogone." 

 From syngone come the words "syngonic," syngonically," and "syn- 

 gony;" and corresponding words from digone, amphigone, homogone 

 and heterogone. 



Gone. To produce gones. 



Gonic. Of or relating to a gone. 



Syngonic. Having macro- ("female") and micro- ("male") gametes in the same 

 gone; e.g. as in many nemas. 



Digonic. Having macro- ("female") and micro- ("male") gametes in separate 

 gones in the same individual; e.g. as in many hermaphrodites. 



Amphigonic. Having macro- ("female") and micro-("male") gametes in sep- 

 arate gones that are in separate individuals; e.g. as in all bisexual forms. 



Homogonic. Having gones all of the same kind. 



Heterogonic. Having gones of various kinds; e.g. as in a species presenting 

 both syngony and amphigony. 



Syngone. A gone bearing both macro-("female") and micro- ("male") gametes. 

 By synecdoche syngone also designates an organism or species containing, 

 or characterized by, syngones; similarly with the following four terms. 



Digone. A digonic individual or species. 



Amphigone. An amphigonic species. 



Heterogone. A species presenting both amphigony and syngony, or both di- 

 gony and amphigony, etc. A heterogonic species. 



Homogone. A species or individual presenting uniformity in the space rela- 

 tionships of its gonic cells. A homogonic species. 



Kinetogone. A gone whose gametes are active, aggressive, or "male." 



Statogone. A gone whose gametes are passive or "female." 



Entering now a more or less theoretical domain whose permanency 

 will depend on the results of future investigations, and carrying the 

 analysis a step farther by taking into consideration the space relation- 

 ships of the chromosomes and other intra-cellular elements that ac- 

 cording to an increasingly prevalent modern belief themselves carry, 

 or determine the factors of descent, and using the Greek word KVVTOS as 

 a basis, I derive, as may be necessary, "syncyst," "amphicyst," 'het- 

 erocyst," etc., and their adjective, adverbial, and substantive deriva- 

 tives ( e.g., syncystic, syncystically, syncysty) to aid in expressing 

 positional relationships. Thus the word "syncyst" refers to a gonic 

 cell, such as a parthenogenetic ovum, containing all the elements., 



