The cell envelope of a marine pseudomonad as seen in thin section by electron microscopy has the double-membrane structure typical of other gram-negative bacteria. Cells washed with a solution containing Na+, K+, and Mg++ at their concentrations in the growth medium, when suspended briefly in 0.5 M sucrose, lost 13% of their hexosamine in a form nonsedimentable by centrifugation at 73,000 x g. ...