When cells of Valonia macrophysa were placed in hypertonic sea water, the concentration of halide and of nitrate increased, and the sum of halide + nitrate became 0.05 M greater inside than outside, which is about the same difference as is found in cells in normal sea water. In ordinary sea water the ratio of halide to nitrate is 80,000 to 1. When this was changed by substituting nitrate for halide so that the concentration of halide was 1.75 times that of nitrate the rate of entrance of halide was 1.68 times that of nitrate in 276 hours and the ratio of halide to nitrate in the sap decreased from 38 to 18.5. No halide came out in exchange for entering nitrate. The retention of chloride may well be due to the fact that even when the halide concentration of the sea water is reduced as low as 0.4 M, there is still an inwardly directed activity gradient of sodium chloride.
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