SCIENCE- GOSSIP. 



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the male antherids and the female archegones are 

 visible to the naked eye as minute globules and 

 elliptical green bodies. The number of anthero- 

 zooids in "the antherids is said to be many thou- 



offiainalis, L.), a plant of local distribution. I 

 found it in great plenty in the Lake District. In 

 the Bath and Bristol district it is only to be found 

 in one or two places. — -4. G. Wheatcroft. 



Fig. 1(1. Fossil Stem of Crinoids. Fig. 11. honatia lyneurium. 

 Fio. 12. Paragorgia arborea and Lophogorgia palma. 



sands. When ripe the shields fall apart and the 

 antherozooids escape from their mother cells and 

 move about rapidly in . the water by means of 

 vibratile ciliae. Fig;. 13 shows the antheridial 



Figs. 13 and 14. Chara fragilis. 



filaments escaping. Fig. 14 shows an individual 

 filament enlarged, and containing the anthero- 

 zooids. 



Xenodochus carbonarius (Burnet Brand) spores 

 (Fig. 15). — This somewhat rare micro-fungus is 

 parasitic on the Great Burnet (Sanguisorba 



Spores of Xenoloch 



Remarks. 



Are not the star-like spicules sponge-spicules ? — 

 R. S. Pattrick. 



I recommend all who have not examined the 

 fruit of Chara when living to do so next season. 

 Xenodochus carbonarius differs from Aregma bul- 

 bosum, the common blackberry brand, only in having 

 more numerous spore cells. — John Terry. 



Fig. 16. lioicurbaiikia imbricata 



These fossil polyzoa are very beautiful, and I 

 have made drawings of them, as well as one from 

 a living Bowerbankia (fig. 16). — Florence Phillips. 

 I think with Mr. Pattrick that the spicules 

 referred to are from a sponge. I never saw any 

 from Gorgonias at all like them, and those I have 

 seen are all similar to the other forms represented. — 

 John Hibbert. 



{To be continued.) 



