418 ALFRED W. BENNETT AND GEORGE MURRAY. 
seems possible. In the proposed system zygosperm will 
replace Strasburger’s zygote/’ and the gametes ” of the 
same writer wdll be zygospheres ; while his zoogametes ” or 
“ planogametes ” must enjoy the somewhat cumbrous name 
of zoozygospheres,” the prefix zoo ” or suffix zoid ” 
being always used to denote an apparently spontaneous 
power of motion. 
In the Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes^ and some other 
classes of Cryptogams, the entire non-sexual generation 
which bears the spores is frequently called the ‘‘receptacle/’ 
a term which is for several reasons objectionable. In the 
first place it has no meaning etymologically in this connec- 
tion; and secondly, it suggests a false analogy with the 
receptacle in flowering plants, a structure which supports 
the sexual reproductive organs. A convenient expression 
for that portion of the non-sexual generation which bears the 
spores is the fructification^ corresponding to the German 
equivalent “ Fruchtkorper,” and already popularly used in 
this sense in the case of mosses, as well as for the sori of 
ferns. Except, as far as is yet known, in the case of the 
Basidiomycetes, the fructification is always the result of im- 
pregnation ,• and, according to Reqss, Eidam, and others, the 
same is the case also in that class of fungi. 
To illustrate the simplification effected in cryptogamic 
terminology by the proposed reform, two comparative tables 
are appended ; and the following list is given, which enu- 
merates some of the terms in more frequent use by various 
writers as respects Thallophytes and Characese, all of which 
are disused in the proposed system. 
Non-sexual organs, — Gemma, conidium, gonidium, endo- 
gonidium, zoogonidium, macrozoospore, acrospore, ectospore, 
swarmspore, pycnidium, perithecium, apothecium, theca, 
receptacle. 
Male sexual organs, — Spermatozoid, spermatium, spermo- 
gonium, globule. 
Female sexual organs, — Oospore, zygospore, zygogonidium, 
zygozoospore, zygote, gamete, planogamete, aplanogamete, 
ascogonium, nucule, sporocarp, ceramidium, coccidium, 
favella, favellidium, sphaerospore. 
