22 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JULY 
although it also stains nucleoli deeply. The method of anthero- 
zoid formation found in Zamia is also very different from any 
known case, so far as I can learn, but is probably similar to what 
occurs in Ginkgo and Cycas. 
In a future number of this journal the writer hopes to discuss 
the phenomena of fertilization in Zamia together with further 
notes on the homologies and functions of the centrosome-like 
body. 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
