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Dr. Marshall A. Howe exhibited specimens and drawings of a 
alga, a species of Endocladia, that lives within 
microscopic green 
us green seaweeds. 
the cell walls of certain larger filamento 
The small endophyte has abundant cl of its own and 
is seleaie either not at tall or Sal in a slight degree Meee 
material was collected in 
Mrs. Britton exhibited specimens of oe — 
oeb. from one a Straits Settlements, Malay Peninsula, 
collected ley, Director of the ae ‘Gardens 
at sic ipore (782), which were found unnamed in the Mitten 
Herbarium. She stated that this was an extension of daa 
for this rare and interesting species, as heretofore it has bee 
known only from Tjibodas in Java. cee and ee ees 
of two North American mosses having a permanent protonema 
were shown, Pogonaium brevicaule ie Discelium nudum, an 
it was stated that in sacri when first ee the 
maaan was not known and that the protonema bears septate 
gemmae by which the species is propagated. As it grows on 
ae in humid forests, these gemmae rapidly disseminate the 
— 
. Murrill spoke briefly on species of the genus a 
occurring on the Pacific slope. Eighteen species are known from 
that region, nine of them having been recently es by 
Murrill. Among these, pe crocodilinus, found at 
Ferndale, Humboldt Co., California, by Mr. H. J. Smith, is 
remarkable for its size, veanine paanees inches in diameter, 
and for its conspicuous warty surface, which resembles the skin 
of a crocodile. This species is edible and an attempt is being 
made to obtain spawn of it for cultivatio 
Dr. B. O. Dodge reviewed the nen published work of 
Dr. Hotson on bulbil producing fungi and spoke of similar 
phenomena noted in his studies of Ascobolus magnificu. 
A plant of Pelargonium 2onale showing a bud variation was 
Dr. 
out. pla 
is a peripheral chimera with two peripheral cell layers of white 
tissue enclosing green colored tissue. The leaves have con- 
