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RHODOPHYCE# (RED ALG@).—Their characteristics. Chondrus, 
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PUNGE-—T heir charatteristics'and classes! 3 32 = a es ay 362 
SCHIZOMYCETES (BACTERIA).—Definition and characteristics. 
Classification according to the phenomena they produce. 
Fermentation, decay and putrefaction. Bacterial cultures. 
Forms of bacteria. Motility. Nutrition. Nitrification. Den- 
trification. Growth Products. Reproduction. Morphology 
due to cleavage. Forms of cell groups after cleavage. Sporula- 
tion. Rapidity of growth and multiplication. Chemical com- 
position. “Exotoxins and endotoxins. . ... . + . . + 49s) egGe oo0 
MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA.—The 
lower bacteria. The higher bacteria. Pathogenic bacteria. 
Some bacteria producing disease in man, the lower animals and 
1h Piniia ace pee ora fe oo, oF eee eee . . 370-374 
MYXOMYCETES (SLIME MOLDS). —Their characteristics. . . . 374-375 
EUMYCETES (TRUE FUNGI).—Their characteristics and sub-classes 375-376 
PHYCOMYCETES (ALGA-LIKE FUNGI).—Their characteristics. 
The orders Zygomycetales and Odmycetales. Cultivation of 
Molds. Life history of the Black Bread Mold. Related molds. 376-381 
ASCOMYCETES (SAC FUNGI).—Their characteristics. Order 
Protoascales. Family Saccharomycetacee. The Yeasts. 
Life history of a yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Top and 
bottom yeasts. Wine yeast. Other yeasts. The orders 
Pezizales, Plectascales, Tuberales, Helvellales, Pyrenomycetales. 
Characteristics of the cup-fungi, blue and green molds, truffles, 
saddle-fungi and black-fungi. Production of citric acid by molds. 
Pife history of Clavicepe purpurea: cs 3 5 ., 381-397 | 
BASIDIOMYCETES (BASIDIA FUNGI).—Their characteristics. The 
Lower Basidiomycetes. 1. The Ustilaginales or Smuts: their 
characteristics. Life history of corn smut. 2. The Uredinales 
or Rusts: Characteristics. Life history of wheat rust. The 
Higher Basidiomycetes: Their characteristics and sub-groups, 
1. Hymenomycetes: weeping fungi, exobasidiales, coral-fungi, 
mushrooms and toadstools including tooth-fungi, pore-fungi, 
and gill-fungi. Groups of Agaricacez based on color of their 
spores. Spore prints. Life history of the Common Field 
Mushroom and of the Fly- and Deadly-. ic. Antidote for 
poisoning by the Fly Agaric. 2. Gasteromycetes: puff-balls, ae 
earth-stars, nest-fungi and carrion-fungi. . . . .... . . 397-411. 
FUNGI IMPERFECTI.—Their characteristics, and forms producing : 
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