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monotypic genus of the Marsilleaceae. A study of the two 

 gametophytes has shown them to be essentially like those of the 

 other two genera of this family, Marsilea and Pilularia. How- 

 ever, a unique feature in the male gametophyte of RegneUidium 

 is the formation of a second prothallial cell in the same manner 

 as the first, i.e., by an unequal division of the large central 

 cell. The male gametophyte at maturity consists of two prothal- 

 lial ceils, and two antheridia, each antheridium having three 

 wall cells and sixteen sperms. 



"The female gametophyte differs from those of Marsilea and 

 Pilularia in that the archegonium wall at the time of fertiliza- 

 tion is composed of two layers of cells rather than one. 



"The gametophytes attain maturity in about 16-22 hours." 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Will S. Monroe, at whose home at Couching Lion 

 Mountain, \"ermont, members of the Torrey Club have often 

 been entertained died on January 29 at the hospital at Burling- 

 ton in his seventy-sixth year. Professor Monroe was widely 

 known as a writer and lecturer. He was for some years professor 

 of psychology at Massachusetts State Normal School and later 

 at the New Jersey State Normal School at Montclair. He gave 

 courses of lectures at Columbia and at the University of \"er- 

 mont. In 1918 he went to France as a member of President 

 Wilson's peace inquiry commission. In 1925 he retired from 

 teaching, but the following year gave lectures at the University 

 of Sofia in Bulgaria. He built the Monroe Skyline, a section of 

 The Long Trail of the Green Mountain Club, extending from 

 Winooski Gorge to Middleburg Gap, a distance of forty-eight 

 miles. 



Dr. Ivan C. Jagger, plant pathologist of the L'. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, died in San Diego, California, on February 

 17. Dr. Jagger had worked on developing disease resistant fruits 

 and vegetables in the Imperial \'alley of California. He was 

 born in Palmyra, N. Y. and graduated from Cornell University 

 in 1911. Before he began his service with the Department of 

 Agriculture he was an assistant professor at the University of 

 Rochester. 



J. Francis Macbride, associate curator of the herbarium of 



