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VOLUME XXIII NUMBER 6 
MOTANIGAL  (4AZEREE 
FUNE 1897 
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE CRYPTOGAMIC LABO- 
RATORY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. XXXIX. 
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE MYXOBACTERIACE. 
ROLAND THAXTER. 
(WITH PLATES XXX-XXXI) 
Ina paper published in the GazEeTTE‘' a few years since the 
Writer presented certain notes concerning a curious group of 
Schizomycetes, which, from the fact that their life cycle is 
divided into two definitely recurring periods—one of vegeta- 
tion, the other a period of fructification or pseudo-fructification 
_ through the simultaneous and concerted action of numerous 
_Individuals—was thought to be sufficiently well characterized 
_ ‘0 warrant the separation of its members as a distinct order. | 
