50 Massee. — On the presence 
containing water, where they remained until the third week in 
July, when on examination I found the spores still remaining 
in the peridia apparently unchanged, and on being placed in a 
damp growing-cell germination took place in a very peculiar 
way. On the thisd day most of the spores were filled with 
broadly elliptical colourless bodies, measuring about 6 x 4 /x ; 
some had already escaped, the remainder following, accom- 
panied by a cloud of granules and disintegrated ectoplasm 
when the spores were placed in water (Fig. 7); the whole pro- 
cess resembling very much what takes place in the germinating 
spores of Spnmaria alba , Bull., only in the present instance 
the escaping bodies exhibited no spontaneous movements, 
neither could I detect the presence of cilia. Further experi- 
ments with the remaining material corroborated the above 
observations in every particular, with the exception in one in- 
stance of a suspicion of movement, but too vague to justify the 
term zoospores being given to the bodies in question. I have 
reasons for believing that a shorter period of submergence 
suffices for the production of the above method of germination, 
as I have detected similar bodies in the spores of herbarium- 
specimens, the peridia of which had probably been flooded 
with water for a short period and collected before the spores 
discharged their contents. In Phytophthora , according to De 
Bary 1 , the mode of germination varies from a germ-tube to 
the production of zoospores, depending on the nature of the 
solution in which the gonidia are placed. 
1 Fungi, Mycetozoa, and Bacteria (Engl, ed.), p. 109. 
