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Notes. 
obvious that he must have witnessed this interesting process, a method of sporangium 
dehiscence which is unique among the Saprolegniales, and which the writer, two 
years later, described in detail for the first time. Although Sawada’s account of 
Thransioiheca is merely a one-page note incidental to his more intensive study of 
Achlya prolifer a , it is none the less of great interest to mycologists as the first report 
of this rare fungus from the Orient, a region that will inevitably yield many remark¬ 
able water-moulds when more intensively studied. 
WILLIAM H. WESTON, Jr. 
Department of Cryptogamic Botany, 
Harvard University. 
