162 PROTISTS AND DISEASE 



A Note on the Basis of Classification of the Phycomycetes 

 and the Mycetozoa 



The name Phycomycetes or alga-like fungi was made by 

 de Bary to include forms like Saprolegnia, Pythium, and 

 Peronospora. It has since been extended to embrace the 

 Chytridiineae. 



The systematic arrangement of the Mycetozoa has to be 

 viewed from two different aspects, the botanical and the 

 zoological respectively. 



A complete modern classification of the Phycomycetes 

 was given by J. Ramsbottom in the Transactions of the 

 British Mycological Society, Vol. VI, Part II, 1916. 



The subjoined zoological classification of the Mycetozoa 

 is that given by Delage and Herouard, Zoologie Concrete, 

 Tome I, 1896. 



PHYCOMYCETES =00 M YCETES + Z YGOM YCETE8. 



OOM yC^mS=CHYTRIDIINEAE 4- ANCYLISTINEAE + 

 MONOBLEPHABIDINEAE -f SAPROLEGNIINEAE 

 + PEBONOSPORINEAE. 



Z YGOM YCETES=MUCOItiNE AE + ENTOMOPHTHORI- 

 NEAE. 



CHYTRIDIINEAE =MYXOCHYTRIDIINAE + MYCOCHYTRIDII- 



NAE. 



