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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. I52 BOTANICAL GAZETTE LAUGUST brane. Massart, on the protoplasm of the Schizophytes, concludes that the central body, even when it occurs, is not the homologue of a nucleus; nor is the " couche corticale" the homologue of a plastid. He regards the Schizophyceae as derived from the bacteria, but the group as a whole as nowise related to any other organisms. In his last paper, Massart introduces a deluge of new terms sufficient alone to form a supplement to anly up-to-date dictionary. The analysis of the subject is clear, and in large part logically carried through; and a clean-cut voc abulary is prerequisite to clean-cut thinking, still more to lucid expression. Codifying such a terminology is an unqualified service to those who use it, as Czapek's forerunner has well proven, but every uninitiate will want to go armed with a " Nomenclator Massartianus " before "geanisopachynosis," "tonesagogic," " cathaptotropic," and the scores more like them become familiar terms.-E. B. COPELAND. NOTES FOR STUDENTS. NINE SPECIES of the Corallinae (verae) from Port Renfrew are described and figured by K. Yendo.'8 Three of these are new species, viz., Cheilosjiorum MlacMi/lani, Corallina vancouveriensis, and Coral/ina aculeata.-B. M. DAVIS. THE NEW Osciliatoria begjiatoides is a colorless sulphur-bearing organism described by Arzichowsky,'9 and considered by him as a transition between Oscillatoria and Beggiatoa. The sulphur grains are very small and lie close to the cell wall. The account of this interesting form is to be found among the descriptions of several species of Beggiatoa. It deserves better treatment in a language and a journal that will reach more botanists. The paper is written in Russian, with a very short and unsatisfactory resume in German.-B. M. DAVIS. PTERYGOPHORA CALIFORNICA is described and figured by MacMillan,20 who presents some interesting observations on its anatomy and development. Pterygophora is a surge plant growing below the zone of Lessonia and above that of Nereocystis. The general morphology is closest to Alaria, but the distribution of the sori found in the lateral pinnae, together with the " disposition of cuticular caps in the paraphyses," suggest Lessonia. Some of the plants are very large, being ten feet long with stalks three inches in diameter. "8VENDO, K., Corallinae verae of Port Renfrew. Minn. Bot. Studies II. 6:711-722. ils..51-56. I902. 19 ARZICHOWSKY, W., Zur morphologie und systematik der Beggiatoa Trev. Bull. Jard. Imp. Bot. 2: 45-46. pl. r. I 902. 20 MACMILLAN, CONWAY, Observations on Pterygophora. Minn. Bot. Studies JI. 6:723-74I. gils. -62. 1902.