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after placin^^ them in water for a short timr. ; 

 alcohol to check the swelling of the nuu il.ii; 

 which otherwise are soon completely (k>lii)U ( 

 form of the sporangium is especially c 011.^1 >ki 

 (Fig. 8, B), and the arrangement of the crlls 1 

 very suggestive of the annulus of Schi/a a, alll 

 in these aquatic plants, no hardening ot tin- an 

 place. 



This remarkahle correspondence in the siiu. 

 rangium, taken together . with the other close s 

 blances, justihes the assumption of a not \ei \ 

 ship between the Schuaiacca and Maisiln^^ i 



It may be added that this view would tend 

 cont(Mition of Belajeff, that in the male ganu K 

 two anthendia, and not a single one as iIk y\ 

 held. The anthcridium of the Schi/ i ui i ' 

 pie in structure, and might very well be cdnip 

 the groups of sperm-cells in Mai silia, u iih ii, 

 cells. 



XI, 1878. 



^ Britton, E. G. & Taylor— A life history of SLhi/a a I)um1 

 Club, XXVIir, 1901. 



^No. 453 ^'^s issued Oct. 15, '904-) 



