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ALG^ 



attached in tufts to larger algse, and resembling in habit the fresh-water 

 Confervaceae. The thallus consists of segmented more or less branched 

 filaments, either composed of a single row of cells or corticated. The 

 growing point of the filament does not lie at its apex, but at the extremity 

 of a basal portion, the true thallus, the terminal hair-like portion being 



deciduous. The zoosporanges are of 

 both kinds, and are either external 

 and stalked, or are ordinary cells 

 of a filament, whether terminal or 

 intercalary. Multilocular sporanges 

 are sometimes produced on the 



Fig. z2i.—Eciocarpus investiens Hauck, 

 epiphytic on Gracilaria compfessa- 

 { X 250). (After Burnet.) 



Fig. 2:i-.». — Conjugation of zoogametes of 

 Mctocarpus siiiculosusYilz. I, a-/, female 

 zopgamete, gradually losing its cilia. //, 

 male zoogametes swarming round female zoo- 

 gamete ///, a-tf, stages in tile coalescence 

 of the male and female zoogametes ( x 790). 

 (After Berthold.) 



same individual as the urtilocular, but at a later period. The swarm- 

 cells which escape from the unilocular sporanges are non-sexual zoospores, 

 germinating directly after coming' to rest, "and investing themselves with 

 a cell-wall. Those contained in the multilocular sporanges all escape 

 through a single terminal opening, and partake to a certain extent of 

 sexual properties, or become under certain conditions zoogametes. 



