68 General Notes. [ January, 
cleus is to be seen with difficulty, if at all, and the partitions ha 
a curious double-infolded appearance. 5 
Two individuals, one bearing all the characters of S. maguscuia 
and the other all those of S. protecta, were observed in conjuga 
tion, as in the figure. The two species were almost equally abun- 
dant in the pool from which the specimen was obtained. As 
be seen in the figure an apparently perfect resting spore | 
formed as a result of the hybridization. It is interesting to 
that the form of the resting spore resembles that of S. protecia 
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A, Spirogyra majuscula, and B, S. profectain conjugation; A’, 4 single 
S. majuscula showing structure; B’,a single cell of S. profecta showing ®t 
(From camera sketches.) 
much more than it does that of S. majuscula. The pure” 
resting spores of S. protecta in the same pool were muc 
In this instance B was functionally the female and A the 
that here form followed the female.— C. E. Bessey. 
Larce Funet.—Last summer while searching for small 
I found a fungus of unusual dimensions. It was on the- 
of an old tree which was decayed in places. The tree 
where the ground was wet, though not swampy ; it was 4 
tree, and the fungus was so high that I could not se 
a gentleman found means to reach it and cut it from th 
, 
dark brown shades of soft tints, growing darker at 
