SPORE MORPHOLOGY IN THE CYATHEACEAE. III. THE GENUS TRICHIPTERIS

Scanning electron microscopy supported by light microscopic L-O analysis is used in a palynological study of the genus Trichipteris of the tree fern family Cyatheaceae. The spores of all but two of the 55 species are investigated and the results are related to previous findings for Trichipteris species in the literature. A perine layer consisting of a network of slender, smooth- or rough-textured interlocking strands with free ends uniformly characterizes the genus and is the same as the perine type previously reported in neotropical species of Sphaeropteris excluding the S. horrida group. The exine is analyzed both in spores which have not yet developed the perine layer and in spores whose perine has been removed by chemical treatment. Exine sculpturing shows great variation in the genus, ranging from essentially psilate to variously pitted (foveolate, foraminate), with topography ranging from plane to verrucate-tuberculate, and with the verrucae-tubercles themselves often variously pitted. In many instances, exine sculpturing types correlate with the infrageneric species groupings or affinities hypothesized by the recent monographers. In other cases, palynological characters offer new insight into species relationships that were previously unclear to monographers or that were interpreted differently on the basis of other characters. The exine sculpturing types reinforce the relationship evident between Trichipteris and neotropical Sphaeropteris on the basis of perine morphology.     

SPORE WALL DEVELOPMENT IN ANDREAEA (MUSCI: ANDREAEOPSIDA)

The spore wall of Andreaea rothii (Andreaeopsida) is unique among mosses studied by transmission electron microscopy. The exine of other mosses is typically initiated on trilaminar structures of near unit membrane dimensions just outside the plasma membrane. The exine of Andreaea is initiated in the absence of such structures as discrete globules within the coarsely fibrillar network of the sporocyte wall. The sequence of wall layer development, nevertheless, is essentially like that of other mosses. The intine is deposited within the exine and the perine accumulates on the surface of the exine during the latter stages of spore maturation. The mature spore is weakly trilete and inaperturate. The wall consists of three layers, the inner intine, the spongy exine consisting of loosely compacted irregular globules of sporopollenin, and an outer layer of perine. The perine differs ultrastructurally from the exine only in its greater degree of electron opacity. This ultrastructural evidence of departure from the fundamental pattern of exine development in mosses supports the taxonomic isolation of Andreaea from mosses of the Sphagnopsida and Bryopsida.     

中国蕨科植物的孢子形态

中国蕨科９属２１种孢子形态的ＳＥＭ观察结果表明,孢壁纹饰是一个稳定的遗传性状,不受植株分布地区,海拔高度,孢子成熟度以及植株叶片的局部变异的影响,属间孢壁纹饰差异显著,为本科分类提供了孢子形态的依据。孢粉学上区分的类型与植物形态上划分的属相一致。ＬｅｐｔｏｌｅｐｉｄｉｕｍＨｓｉｎｇｅｔＳＫＷｕ具有明显的孢壁纹饰特征,从孢粉学角度看划分为一独立属是成立的,本文还讨论了中国蕨科９属间可能的进化路线。     

AN ELECTRON-MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF SPORE WALL STRUCTURE IN THE MUSCI

Spores of 9 species of mosses were embedded in plastic and sectioned for light and electron microscopy. The presence of 4 spore wall layers was found to be of common occurrence. A comparison with pollen wall structure was made. Variations in the layers contributing to the ornamentation were noted. A multi-layered intine was observed in the genus Archidium. The results indicate that thin sectioning should yield additional sporoderm characteristics of systematic value.     

CHROMOSOME MORPHOLOGY IN THE GENUS SAMBUCUS

Two basic chromosome karyotypes were found in the genus Sambucus. Chromosome numbers were observed to be 2n = 38 for S. callicarpa, S. cerulea, S. glauca, S. kamtschatica, S. melanocarpa, S. mexicana, S. miquelli, S. sibirica, and S. sieboldiana and 2n = 36 for S. simpsonii and S. williamsii. Measurements of 18 karyotypes are presented. The major differences between the two basic chromosome karyotypes can be explained as the result of a mis-division of a metacentric chromosome giving rise to two telocentric chromosomes, thus reducing the number of metacentrics from five to four and increasing the chromosome number from 2n = 36 to 2n = 38. Observed chromosome aberrations and aneuploidy may result from unstable telocentric chromosomes.     

北京铁线蕨属孢子形态的研究

本文利用扫描电子显微镜辅以光学显微镜的方法,详细观察并描述了北京铁线蕨属4种即团羽铁线蕨、普通铁线蕨、掌叶铁线蕨、铁线蕨孢子的形态结构特征。讨论了各种间的差异,为铁线蕨属系统分类研究提供了孢粉学方面的依据。     

MORPHOLOGY OF SPORE DEVELOPMENT IN CLOSTRIDIUM PECTINOVORUM.

Fitz-James, Philip C. (University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada). Morphology of spore development in Clostridium pectinovorum. J. Bacteriol. 84:104-114. 1962-The process of spore formation in Clostridium pectinovorum was followed by phase-contrast microscopy and by thin-section electron microscopy employing a polyester plastic for embedding. The development of the forespore membrane was found to be similar to that already described for the genus Bacillus, being, in addition, accompanied by considerable cell enlargement. The cortex, as in the bacilli, was found between the apposed layers of the double forespore membrane. The spore coat was laid down in the narrow zone of cytoplasm peripheral to the outer forespore membrane. As these layers formed, striking changes occurred in the fine structure of the spore nuclear material, mesosomes and ribosomes, reflecting the marked alterations in physical environment known to occur in a developing spore.     

中国美姿藓属植物的订正

根据文献记载,中国美姿藓属Ｔｉｍｍｉａ Ｈｅｄｗ。植物共有４种。通过实地采集和标本鉴定,确认中国产苔藓植物共有５种,其中的纤细美姿藓为中国新记录。本文对该属每种植物进行了描述,并给出了分种检索表,同时对它们的分类特征、地理分布也进行了简要讨论。     

华南地区羽枝藓属（平藓科）和凋叶藓属（薄齿藓科）植物研究

本文研究了华南地区羽枝藓属（Ｐｉｎｎａｔｅｌｌａ）和凋叶藓属（Ｃａｄｕｃｉｅｌｌａ）植物．简要讨论了羽枝藓属和凋叶藓属的系统位置．确认华南地区产羽枝藓属４种,即爪哇羽枝藓（Ｐ．ａｎｂｉｇｕａ）、纤细羽枝藓（Ｐ．ａｎａｃａｍｐｔｏｌｅｐｉｓ）、嵌边羽枝藓（Ｐ．ｉｎｔｒａｌｉｍｂａｔａ）和东亚羽枝藓（Ｐ．ｍａｋｉｎｏｉ）,凋叶藓２种,即广东凋叶藓（Ｃ．ｇｕａｎｇｄｏｎｇｅｎｓｉｓ）和凋叶藓（Ｃ．ｍａｒｉｅｉ）．其中爪哇羽枝藓为广东、贵州、海南岛之新记录,纤细羽枝藓为中国大陆（广东、广西）和海南岛之新记录,东亚羽枝藓为福建、广西和海南岛之新记录,广东调叶藓为海南岛之新记录,暂将Ｐ．ａｌｏｐｅｃｕｒｉｏｉｄｅｓ处理为存疑种。本文还包括分种检索表、各种的简要识别特征、产地及生境资料．     

中国真藓属孢子形态的研究

通过光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜观察了中国真藓属Bryum Hedw．13种孢子的形态特征。根 据外壁纹饰可分为:类型I,棒状突起顶端圆钝;类型Ⅱ,棒状突起顶端尖或具微突起;类型Ⅲ,棒状突 起顶端膨大成半球形。根据孢子直径的大小,可分3个类群。以上显示了物种间的遗传分化及其相似 性,证明真藓属确为一个自然分类群,真藓属孢子的形态比丝瓜藓属Pohlia Hedw．进化。这给苔藓的孢子形态研究及分类和系统演化的研究提供了新的资料。     

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY IN THE GENUS ERYTHRONIUM (LILIACEAE) AND ITS SYSTEMATIC IMPLICATIONS

Pollen morphology was examined in 40 samples from 19 species in the genus Erythronium (Liliaceae) using scanning (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Pollen grains are monosulcate monads, except for a plant of E. oregonum which has dyad grains. North American and European species are characterized by reticulate exine sculpture composed of various degrees of wavy muri and variably-sized lumina. The most distinctive feature of exine sculpture in the genus is exhibited by the Asian species E. japonicum, which has a unique reticulate pattern composed of striate muri and a distinctive exine structure without columellae. The distinctness of E. japonicum pollen suggests that it has specialized in isolation from species in North America and Europe.     

POLLEN MORPHOLOGY IN THE GENUS MIMULUS (SCROPHULARIACEAE) AND ITS TAXONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE

The pollen morphology of 117 species and varieties of Mimulus was examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. Five major and 8 more tentative, minor types were found based on the differential correlation of aperture type, exine morphology, pollen grain diameter and other characters: type 1—synaperturate, usually ±spiraperturate, exine perforate to microreticulate with supratectal processes; type II—trocolporate, exine microreticulate (IIa and IIb, supratectal processes absent; IIa, mean polar axis 16–19 μm; IIb, mean polar axis 25–35 μrn; IIc, supratectal processes present); type III—tricolpate, colpus membrane ±psilate. exine with supratectal processes (IIIa, exine microreticulate and 1.4–2.0 μm thick, polar axis ≥ 30 μm; 111b, exine densely perforate and 2.2–2.8 μm thick, polar axis ≤ 23 μm); type IV—tricolpate, colpus covered with spinulose granules (operculate), exine microreticulate with supratectal processes; type V—5–7 stephanocolpate (Va and Vb, colpus margins ±straight and nongranular; Va, exine microreticulate with supratectal spinules; Vb, exine perforate with supratectal spinules or spinulose verrucae; Vc, colpus margins ragged and granular, exine microreticulate with supratectal processes). The pollen data correlate well with geographical and macromorphological data and, where the latter are ambiguous, often provide important clues toward the resolution of conflicting interpretations of infrageneric classification and generic delimitation.     

北京粉背蕨属孢子形态的研究

利用光学显微镜和扫描电子显微镜对北京产粉背蕨属4种即华北粉背蕨,北京粉背蕨、银粉背蕨、陕西粉背蕨的孢子进行了详细观察,对每个种的形态特征进行了描述。讨论了各种间的差异,为粉背蕨属系统分类及孢粉学研究提供资料。     

SPORE MORPHOLOGY IN THE DICKSONIACEAE. I. THE GENERA CYSTODIUM,THYRSOPTERIS, AND CULCITA

The most mature spores available in herbarium specimens of the dicksoniaceous genera Cystodium, Thyrsopteris, and Culcita were studied by scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy, and representative specimens were analyzed to determine the number of spores produced per sporangium. Thyrsopteris and Culcita feature 64-spored sporangia, but Cystodium is consistently 32-spored. Spores were analyzed both in their native state as found on the specimens and in a perine-free state achieved by treatment with sodium hydroxide or acetolysis mixture. The sodium hydroxide assay demonstrated the presence of a perine in Cystodium, Thyrsopteris, and Culcita subgenus Culcita, but no evidence of a perine so defined was found in Culcita subgenus Calochlaena. Spores of Cystodium feature a nearly psilate exine overlain by a striate inner perine and a granular outer perine and are in several respects similar to those of Metaxya in the cyatheoid-dicksonioid complex and to those of Saccoloma in the dennstaedtioids. The most mature Thyrsopteris spores available may not have been fully mature. They feature a sparsely distributed, granular perinous layer over a microverrucate sculptine. The latter topography is taken as largely perinous since treatment with sodium hydroxide left a nearly psilate exine. The spore morphologies of Cystodium and Thyrsopteris reinforce the taxonomic distinctness of these monotypic genera indicated by their other characters. The two subgenera of Culcita are very dissimilar in their spore morphologies. The exine in subgenus Culcita ranges from psilate to slightly microverrucate proximally and distally, with varying margo development. Spores of subgenus Calochlaena are strongly differentiated from those of subgenus Culcita by their exine of broad spinules which vary in their degree of lateral fusion to each other and in the granular appearance of their distal surfaces. Spore morphology in Culcita strongly supports the argument of those who would raise its subgenera to generic rank.     

SPORE MORPHOLOGY IN THE CYATHEACEAE. I. THE PERINE AND SPORANGIAL CAPACITY: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

The literature on cyatheaceous spore morphology relative to the presence of a perine layer is reviewed, and evidence based on a sodium-hydroxide assay is presented indicating that the outer scultpine layer in certain cyatheaceous spores is perine. Perine so defined characterizes Metaxya, paleotropical and certain neotropical species of Sphaeropteris, nearly all species of Alsophila, all species of Nephelea, and certain species of Trichipteris and Cyathea. It is lacking in Lophosoria, many species of Trichipteris and Cyathea, and all species of Cnemidaria. Two major patterns of spore number per sporangium in the family are reported. Lophosoria, Sphaeropteris, Trichipteris, Cyathea, Cnemidaria, and probably Metaxya are characterized by 64-spored sporangia, whereas most species of Alsophila and all species of Nephelea are characterized by 16-spored sporangia. The congruence of this generic distribution of sporangial-capacity types with Tryon's phyletic arrangement of cyatheaceous genera supports the naturalness of his system. The intrasporangial germination of spores retained in dehisced and dispersed sporangia supports the suggestion that decreased spore number per sporangium in Alsophila and Nephelea may relate to the role of the sporangia as dispersal units. The decreased number of spores per sporangium is associated with a trend toward increase in the number of sporangia per sores, with the highest known count approaching 1000 sporangia per sorus. The Alsophila-Nephelea evolutionary line has probably not been ancestral in the phylogeny of the more advanced groups of ferns.     

国产堇菜属植物花粉形态的研究

本文应用光学显微镜及扫描电镜对国产３２种堇菜属植物的花粉形态进行了观察,结果表明,在光学显微镜下,除Ｖ．ｔｒｉｃｏｌｏｒＬ．外,堇菜属植物的花粉形态比校一致,对本属的分类意义不大。在扫描电镜下的花粉外壁纹饰亦表明本属是一个较为自然的类群。但国产四亚属之间的花粉在外壁纹饰,颗粒的多少和有无,穿孔的多少和有无等方面存在着较明显的差异,而在亚属内则分化校小。支持了Ｊｕｚｅｐｃｈｕｋ（１９４９）和王庆瑞（１９９１）的分类处理。     

中国后生耳蕨组的孢子形态研究

对国产耳蕨属后生耳蕨组２６种的孢子形态进行了研究。结果表明,后生耳蕨组的孢子周壁纹饰可大致分为粗糙、翅状、脊状、穴状和网状６类。各种的周壁纹饰均有一定差异,同种的孢子形态较为稳定。从孢子形态特征看,支持Ｐｏｌｙｓｔｉｃｈｕｍ ｙｕｎｎａｎｅｎｓｅ Ｃｈｒｉｓｔ和Ｐｊｉｚｈｕｓｈａｎｅｎｓｅ Ｃｈｉｎｇ为独立的种。本文还结合其它特征,讨论了后生耳蕨组孢子形态的演化趋势,进而从孢粉学的角度推测本组线鳞