Algae. a) Articuli compressed sagittate, reniform, or truncate, pinnately b r a n c h e d ; genicula unizonal, lineaeform. C o n c e p t a c l e s on the surface of the compressed articuli.

Sect. III. Arthrocardia. b) Articuli cylindrical or compressed sagittate, or linear, pinnately or irregularly branched. C o n c e p t a c l e s c o n i cal or hemispherical, prominent on the margins of the compressed articuli, or on the surface of cylindrical articuli. S e c t . IV. Marginisporum. B . Mother cells of the propagating cells generated in the m e dulla; genicula unizonal or multizonal; articuli cylindrical, c o m p r e s s e d , sagittate or truncate; ramification pinnate, dichotomous, verticillate or irregular. C o n c e p t a c l e s verruculose, globular or pear-shaped. I. Genicula multizonal; ramuli starting from the genicula. a) Articuli cylindrical, ramuli verticillate. G e n . II. Metagoniolithon. b) Articuli flat, di-trichotomously branching. Gen. III. Litharthron. II. Genicula not specially differentiated; main branches dichotomously divided, with compressed articuli; ramuli pinnate, with cylindrical articuli. Gen. IV. Llthothrix. III. Genicula unizonal, ramuli starting from articuli. a) Conceptacles sessile immersed in articuli or pinnulets. Gen. V. Cheilosporum1. Fertile articuli sagittate with pointed wings, c o n c e p tacles immersed in the upper margins of the sagittate articuli. Sect. I. Eucheilosporum. 2. Fertile articuli sagittate or reniform with round or truncate wings, conceptacles immersed in the outer margins of the articuli, or in the surface of the articuli. Sect. II. Alatocladia. 3. Articuli c o m p r e s s e d hexagonal, conceptacles wartlike, on the surface of the articuli or immersed in the pinnulets. S e c t . II. Serraticardia. b ) C o n c e p t a c l e s stalked, mostly taking the place of a segment. 1. B r a n c h e s pinnated. Gen. V. Corallinaa. Pinnules simple or less decompound. S e c t . I'. Officinales, p. Pinnules densely decompound. S e c t . II. Halyption. 2. B r a n c h e s dichotomous. Gen. VII. Jania. Okamura.
YENDO, K., C o n t r i b u t i o n to the s t u d y of t h e Phytoplankt o n of J a p a n . With pl. X X I I . (Journ. of the Imp. Fisheries Bureau. Vol. X I V . No. 2. p. 3 3 6 9 . 1905. Japanese.) Illustration of our common plankton-diatoms ( 5 0 sp.) collected near M i s a k i in the Province of S a g a m i , in April, 1905. Okamura.

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P r i n c i p l e s o f s y s t e m a t i z i n g Corallinae. (Bot. Mag. T o k y o . Vol. X I X . No. 2 2 6 . D e c . 1905. p. 115126.) After having given a short history of the study of Corallinaceous plants, the author says that the most reliable character is, no