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_ON PROTOPLASMIC CONTINUITY IN THE FLORIDEZ. 
By Tuomas Hick, B.A., B.Se. 
(Puates 248 & 244.) 
Tue observations on which this paper is based were commenced 
some years ago, but owing to the pressure of other work were in- 
tion. 
€ specimens employed in the investigation were partly sun- 
. dried and partly fresh, the former having béen found in the majority 
_ of instances quite as demonstrative as the latter. Indeed most of 
' the histological details described, even some of the more refined 
anner 
_ ones, were made out in a satisfactory and convincing m 
1. CaLLITHAMNION. 
The genus Callithamnion includes a number of small but pretty 
_ Rhodosperms, whose general appearance and organisation are well 
’ known to the marine algologist. Fundamentally they consist of 
* “ Ueber den Bau und das Wachsthum der Zellhiute,” p. 246 
table Cells,” by Walter Gardiner, B.A., loc. cit., April, 1883. 
Journat or Borany.—Von. 22. [Fepruary, 1884.] » 
t “Plant Cells and Living Matter,” by Louis Elsberg, M.D., loc. cit., January, 
883; “On Pl i ower, M ct 
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