303 



BOTANr. 



some cases at least, when free from the lichen-thallus, by 

 the production of zoospores. 



Their connection with the hyph* is sometimes by the 

 prolongation of a short branch from the latter, which pasees 

 to each gonidial cell (Fig. 208) ; in other cases the connec- 

 tion is with one cell of a row, as in Pieciospora,* where the 

 connection may be with the terminal cell of the row, or with 

 any of the intermediate ones ; in either ease, the cell to 

 which the hypha-branch is attached is considerably larger 

 than the Others in the row. Schwendener describes]- a con- 



FiG. 208. 



Fig. 209. 



Kg. 808.— Gonidia of diiierent lichens, a to c, of Parmelia tiliacea, showing a, 6, 

 and «, the attached hyphse, X 390 ; /, of Unnea barbata. with attached hypha, X 

 700 ; g, of SphoBTophorus glMfenig, with attached hypha, x 390.— .\fter De Bary and 

 Schwendener. 



Fig. 209.— Gonidia. a, (t, of Leoanactis Ulecebrosa; b, fl, of Graphis scripta. — 

 After De Bary. 



nection which he has seen in certain gelatinous lichens, in 

 which two and three short branches pass off from the same 

 hypha, and unite with the cells of one gonidial chain. 

 Treub;): confirms Schwendener's statement, saying that he 



* See De Bary's " Morpliologie und Pliysiologie der Pilze, Flecliten," 

 etc., p. 264. 



f "Die Flecliten als Parasiten der Aljren," 1873. 



I Dr. Melcliior Treub, " Onderzoekingen over de Natuur der LicUe- 

 nen," 1873. 



