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lular Alga of a more or less pyriform shape, from whose smaller 
end grows a branching root-like process by which the plant is 
fastened in the moist ground. Small as it is, it is amply provided — 
with reproductive bodies as will be seen by the following : ere 
The contents of the pyriform portion may change into a lar, 
number of zodspores each provided with a cilium. 2d. If the PER 
becomes somewhat dry the pyriform portion shrivels, and the root 
fibres ave up into a apretea: of cells which m sc be transfor med 
which, after —* from the spore, unite in twos or some larger 
number so as to form what Rostafineki would call an isospore or, 
as is more cesenily expressed, a zygos 
The cells of Botrydium sometimes bud out at the ere and the 
budding processes, labs a time, send out hyaline _— and finally 
separate from the mother cell, forming a new indivi - In this 
connection, we would refer toa plant “which we Seals jena the 
past summer at Eastport, Maine, and Gloucester, Mass., where it 
was not rare on rocks and wharf at seid ring The species seems 
to be identical with Celiolum gregurium A. Br., found by Brown 
and afterwards by Pringsheim at icligeland, in company with 
least C. gregarium, should be included in Botrydium. w. 
6. Om gars aca marina Klorofyll firande Thalloph rte 
By Dr. F. R. Kjellma 
Ueber die — Vajetatio des Murmanschen Meeres. By Dr. 
F. R. Kjellm 
Bidrag til Shanealeial af Kariska hafvets Algvegetation. By 
Kjellman. 
Bed. hE: 
The above named articles, which are extracted from the proceed- 
ings of the Swedish Royal "Academy are important contributions 
to our knowledge of arctic Algw. Dr. Kjellman as botanist of 
coast, in striking contrast to that of Norway, that there is 
an aiacet entire absence of littoral Fuci and ora, of all littoral 
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