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After much consideration and consultation with friends, I could 
find no better solution of the difficulty than to extend the signification 
of ‘ sporophore,’ as used by Berkeley, beyond the special structures to 
which he restricted it and to include under it all structures which bear 
spores of any kind, thus making it the equivalent of ‘ Fruchttrager/ 
With this meaning ‘ sporophore ’ is consistently applied in De Bary’s 
book, and with satisfactory results so far as my own judgment serves 
me ; I have not yet seen a critical review. Justification of this 
employment of the word, notwithstanding the other signification given 
to it by Thiselton Dyer, is to be found in the fact that my interpreta- 
tion is merely an extension of an older meaning than that given it by 
Thiselton Dyer, and that in his sense the word has not yet come into 
general written use. 
I may also note that Sprengel had already used the adjectival form 
£ sporophori ’ in speaking of the asci of lichens as 4 asci sporophori/ 
so that the term has been in this way applied to structures amongst 
Fungi which produce spores endogenetically as well as exogenetically, 
although it was to the latter only that Berkeley restricted it. 
Having thus assumed 4 sporophore ’ as the equivalent of ‘ Frucht- 
trager,’ it was necessary to find a word to express 4 asexual genera- 
tion.’ Probably had it been necessary to coin a new word, I should 
have hesitated in making the modification indicated, but a word ready 
to hand existed in ‘ sporophyte/ which readers of De Bary’s book on 
Fungi will find explained there. In the interesting introduction in that 
book to the second part of the division upon Fungi, £ spore,’ 4 sporo- 
carp,’ £ sporophyte,’ are used as terms for three stages in complexity 
and relative independence of the product of the sexual act ; £ spore,’ 
describing the condition in Spirogyra , Mucor , etc.; £ sporocarp,’ fitting 
the phenomena in the higher Thallophytes and Muscinese ; whilst in 
Vascular Cryptogams and higher forms we come to the £ sporophyte/ 
I had merely to add the corresponding £ oophyte/ 
Objections to £ sporophyte ’ in the sense of £ asexual generation ’ 
may of course be urged : its use for instance by some authors for the 
whole group of Cryptogams as distinct from Spermaphytes, the 
Phanerogams. But I do not require to discuss this further question 
here, as I only adopted a term already in use for the thing designated. 
At the same time, to this specific objection I would answer that I do 
not recognise the necessity for changing terminology merely because a 
term in use happens to be less expressive of an actual fact than could 
