140 REV. M. J. BERKELEY ON THE FRUCTIFICATION 
that it was hoped I might be able to raise a crop in the following 
spring upon rice-paste, to enable me to examine its characters 
more closely than Mr. Carter had been able to do, as he had not 
made an especial study of the minute Fungi. 
It was the more desirable to do this as the Chionyphe as seen 
by Mr. Carter exhibited more than one form of fructification, in 
one of which a multitude of globose spores were formed within 
the terminal cyst; in another, if not an earlier stage of the same 
thing a few secondary cysts were produced within the mother 
cyst; while in a third, instead of globose spores there were 
myriads of more minute fusiform bodies. These secondary cysts, 
it should be observed, are unlike anything observed hitherto in 
Chionyphe or Mucor, though approaching certain appearances in 
Saprolegnia and its allies. 
The resemblance, however, to these plants did not stop here, 
for in certain cysts lateral branchlets formed a reticulated mass 
over the surface, reminding one strongly of the antheridia in 
Saprolegnia monoica, Pringsheim*, or of the supposed antheridia 
figured by Hofmeistert in Truffles. 
Those who are familiar with the various modes of fructification 
in Fungi, and more especially if they have studied the Sapro- 
legnie, will not be surprised at these anomalies, or at the addi- 
tional proofs afforded by them of the affinity which really exists 
between the Mucorini and Saprolegnie. 
As early as 1823, Carust observed that of two portions of & 
dead salamander which was infested with some incipient mould, 
one which was immersed in water produced an Achlya, while that 
which was kept moist in air gave rise to a species of Mucor. 
This was hailed as a strong argument in favour of the theories 
then prevalent in Germany relative to equivocal generation; but 
it was, in fact, an indication of that plurality of forms of fruit which 
is now known to exist in so many Fungi. The relation has not, 
however, been generally acknowledged, insomuch that the Sapro- 
legnie have by most authors been referred to Algz rather than to 
Fungi. Later discoveries, however, of the existence of spores 
resembling Infusoria in the genus Peronospora, to which the 
Potato-mould belongs, not to mention the Myxogastres, have 
apparently modified opinions, and at the present moment bota- 
nists seem inclined to acknowledge the justice of the views I have 
* Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik, Band 1. tab. 19. 
t Pringsheim, Jahrbücher, Band 2. tab. 33-35. 
t Act. Leop. 1823, tab. 58. 
