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(c) The following table will serve to indicate the revised 
scheme of nomenclature which I venture to propose :— 
PEPASEXUAl SLAGE ©........0 cece sporophyte 
LOMUCTMON tosis ect secu: spores 
DB. e etinis Datede tse eh< sporangia. 
The spore giving rise to oosporangia spermoporangia. 
EPROM SUALE. 5... oacjcesie re ves gamophyte (or gametophyte) 
eens es ee een 
oophyte spermophyte 
PEOGUCUIG Societies vets ova and sperms 
12 Roan onceS neers ovaria and spermaria. 
The product of union of \ 
oosperm. 
ovum and sperm ... | 
(a) Giving rise by embryonic (b) Becoming an embryo, 
fission to products which developing directly into 
become embryos developing a sporophyte. 
directly into sporophyta. 
In conclusion, I would venture to remind you that 
this subject is really of primary importance. It is not 
essentially a word-debate. To the teacher and student of 
Biology, as Professor Parker says, ‘‘the advantage of a 
uniform nomenclature would be immense,” the tendency 
towards which in the present stage of our biological 
knowledge ‘‘none but a ‘scarabeeist’ of the first magnitude 
will regret.”’ It is another outward sign of the long looked 
for and much to be desired fusion in method and treatment 
of two departments of scientific knowledge for ages kept 
religiously distinct to the fatal disadvantage of both. 
