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BRIEFER ARTICLES
A NOTE ON THE GENERATIONS OF POLYSIPHONIA'
(WITH ONE FIGURE)
in at least Polysiphoniaviolacea,
thereis an alternationof generations
and to offerat least some foundationforthe beliefthat it is general
amongthered algae.
In i9ii ProfessorT. C. FRYE foundin Polysiphoniamaterial,col-
lected at the Puget Sound Marine Station in i9io, some specimens
showingboth carposporesand tetra-
sporeson the same individual. This
observationwas made in the course
of laboratoryworkwitha class and
no materialwas kept. He suggested
to the senior author of this note
that the subject be investigated
furtherat the Puget Sound Marine
Station. The junior author ex-
amined the Polysiphonia material
that was broughtinto the labora-
toryat the station duringthe ses-
sion of i9ii. In one lot of material
she found the same condition to
which ProfessorFRYE had referred.
The materialwas collected in the
lowerlittoralzone on therockyshore
of Turn Island,near FridayHarbor,
Washington. It has been identified
by ProfessorW. A. SETCHELL of the FIG. i.-Camera lucida drawingof
a portionof a Polysiphonia(?), show-
University of California as Plerosi- ing on the same individual both
phobia bipinnataand by Dr.-SHIGiO tetrasporesand a cystocarp with a
YAMANOUCHI of the Universityof carpospore.
Chicagoas Polysiphoniasp.
The fact that the mothercells had gone to the pointof complete
divisioninto tetrasporesin the materialexaminedindicatesthat the
tetrasporeswerenot abortive,and the fact that carposporeswereseen
issuingfromcystocarpicplants that bore also perfecttetrasporesindi-
cates that the cystocarpswere not abortive. We have thus an indi-
withthere
vidual thatis both sexual and asexual,whichis inconsistent
alwaysbeingin thisspeciesan alternationof a sexualindividualand an
asexual.
ProfessorT. C. FRYE and the seniorauthorof this noteare nowat
workon thecytology ofspecimensofthisspecieswitha viewto determin-
ing thesporophytic or gametophytic natureofthisgeneration by means
of mitoticstudies.-GEORGEB. RIGG and ANNIE D. DALGITY.