60 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BOTANICAL SYNONYMS IN THE DESMIDIACEZ 
AND PROTOCOCCOIDEZ. 
By G. 8. West, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S. 
publication on Bur Ige,{ although these are obviously of 
the greatest importance in relation to the Alga-fiora 
me instances M. Bernard even describes under new names 
to emphasize the author’s ignorance of Desmids, and his com- 
ments upon the cosmopolitanism of this family are therefore of 
ue 
teristic of many of these plants as a covering of spines 
he following comments refer to the so-called “new species” 
described and figured by M. Bernard :— 
Microcystis minima Bern. (p. 49, f. 10-13). ‘The author does 
not indicate re it is possible to separate this « species ” from 
Ze 
nabena helicoidea Bern. (p. 52, f. 24-9 
the common spirally twisted species of the Ss. 
een ee Bern. (p. 54, f. 29) =a species of Hyalo- 
ably only : cta. 
pirotenia raphidioides Bern. (p. 58, f. 36, 37) is only a form 
; ur. Cf. Liitkem. in Oesterr. Botan. Zeitschr. 1903, 
6) appears to be one of 
genu 
Ch. Bernard, Protococcacées et Desmidiées d'eau douce, recoltées & Java, 
1908. 
