332 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
In the second wee wage is given the So seangd of the group, which includes 
detailed accounts of the behavior of the modium under light, electricity 
and various tempera oi ures, hoy also when ane sand to the influence of —_ 
ases and chemical re-a A chemical analysis of plasmodiu igo 
varians ace Reinke fy Rodewald), furnishes a large “a curious list of com- 
ponent par 
In the | third division is the systematic classification with descriptions of 
one or more species of heme genus represented. The heads of the author’s clas- 
sification are as follow 
A. Monadin 
in 8. 
Vam sipeiclloe: 2. Bursullines. 3. Monocystacee. 
IL. aM zoosporece Cienk. 
cobs Na ap 2. Gymnococeacer. 3. Plasmodiophoree. 
B. Eumycetozoa 
Soropho 
Lf 
1. Guttulines. 2. Dictyosteliaces Bref. 
Il. End 
a, Peritriches, + ae 
iE: ong Rost. 2. Cribrariacee Rost. 
b. Endotrichee 
a. “errs meze ; 
Caleariacew Rost. 2. Amaurochetacee Rost. 
b. Coclon 
. Setehisioee Rost. 2. Arcyriacee Rost. 3. Hpac 
riacee Rost. 4. Liceaces Rost. 5. Perichen 
. Exo ree Rost. 
. Zopt. 
Asa t of poe recent i epee e deems it veseairy to make 
changes i in deka of sak bis founded upon the color of the er aTF The or 
as nd sub-orders me omissions, are otherwise substantially the same 
t the order Heterodermee, which is replaced Peston the sub-order 
_ 
segehiaes, Dermodium, Oligon a and Prot 
While botanists may not i the a ‘of the parapets" : some 
of the above genera, it seems to be a ergy i epne! use of the pru 
to merge Chondrioderma with Didymium on the ground of stostlarity ‘of ae : 
serine: especially as Lepidoderma ahh the same F chacesae of capillitium 
a Poli new genera are created, Ethaliopsis and Tubulifera, each with a sin- 
he work is well illustrated with fifty-two wood cuts, mostly by the pea 
and is a welcome addition to the literature of the su ubject. Gro. A. REX: 
