: ach longer period. 
- Chondromyces serpens n. sp.—Plate XXIV, fig. 24.—Rods 
asin C. lichenicolus. Cysts flesh-colored, dark red when dry, 
50m in diameter, confluent in an anastomosing coil. Cystophore 
On decaying lichens, Cambridge, Mass. 
_ This species made its appearance in company with C. /ichen- 
tcolus in a laboratory culture and was at first taken for an 
abnormal condition of that species.. Cultures on agar and on 
lichens, however, constantly produced the same convoluted 
form which seems to be quite distinct and differs from all the 
MYXOBACTER n. gen.— Rods forming large rounded 
or more free within a gelatinous matrix raised 
abe a the substratum 
eswhen rising to form cysts milky white. Rods large, 
lindrical, rounded at either end, 4—7X.7—.9u. Cysts spher- 
or oblong, golden yellow, thick walled, one to twelve or 
innumber, distinct within a hyaline matrix, 75—350X75 
#. The encysted rods mingled with a yellow, oily ma- 
yst groups .7—Imm. long. 
ery wet wood and bark in swamps. recuse} Point, 
Belmont, Mass. 
OCOCCUS n. gen.—Rods slender, curved, swarming 
ther after a vegetative period to form definite, more or 
S €ncysted sessile masses of coccus-like spores. 
Wy ococeus “eryetieg n. sp. —Plate XXV, figs. 37-41.-— 
s slender, i ly curved, 3—7 X-.4H. 
asses eed drop-like, flesh-colored to dull orange, 
son when dry, at first coherent, becoming deliques- 
[504—1mm. in diameter, often confluent. Spores round, 
1.2 in diameter. 
various decaying substances, lichens, paper, dung, etc. 
species i is so common and makes its appearance with 
