2. Fructification of Macrocystis.

By E. J. Hoffman. (Univ. of California Publications in Botany, vol 4, pp. 151–158, pl. 1; 1911.)

A quite different result is arrived at to that of Smith and Whiting, for the specimens examined show that the so [ unclear: ] ius is not confined to the newly formed bladderless leaves alone, and also that the reproductive bodies appear in continuous instead of disconnected layers only in the furrows of the leaves. It is suggested that the authors named above worked with an entirely different species

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