GENERAL INDEX 



285 



Puff-balls, spore-dispersion, 258 

 Puffing of Discomycetes, 237-240 



Rain, absorption of, 113 

 ,, and spore-fall, 102 

 Rate of fall of spores, 164-178 

 Respiration, 222 

 Rhodosporge, descent of, 12 

 Rhythmic development, of Ascoboli, 257 

 „ „ of Ooprini, 74- 



75 

 Ruhland, W., on nuclei, 9 

 Russula, cystidia, 18 

 stipe, 41, 42 

 and slugs, 226-229 

 ,, violent projection of spores, 

 137 

 Buss^da ritrina, and slugs, 226, 230 

 ,, ,, specific increase in hy- 



menial surface, 30,31 

 Eussida emetica, acridity, 230 



,, ,, rate of fall of spores, 175 



,, ,, size of spores, 162, 248 



and slugs, 226, 229 

 stipe, 42 



Saccardo, p. a., on coprophilous fungi, 



224 

 Saccobolus, mode of spore-disposal, 233, 



251 

 Schizophyllum, continuity of spore-fall, 

 120 

 ,, dispersion of spores, 220 



,, spore stream, 96 



,, a unique genus, 113 



,, a xerophytic genus, 109 



Scliizoiohyllum commune, biology, 113- 



129 

 ,, ,, effect of sun- 



light on 



spores, 25- 

 26 

 ,, ,, germination of 



spores, 106 



,. ,. desiccation, 



109-110, 111 



,, recovery after 



freezing, 



126-127 



,, ,, spore - fall 



period, 103 

 ,, ,, spore - dis- 



charge at 

 low temper- 

 atures, 124- 

 125 

 Schroter on asci of Peziza repanda, 

 245 



Sexuality of Hymenomycetes, 10-12 

 Silver nitrate discharges asci, 238 

 Size of spores, 158-163, 254 

 Slugs, and cystidia, 18 



dispersal of spores by, 226-229 

 ,, and xerophytes, 112 

 Smith, Worthington, on Goprinus 



radiatu^, 75 

 ,, ,, on cystidia, 



17, 18, 19 

 Smut-ball, number of spores, 85 

 Sodium carbonate, effect on asci, 



239 

 Sodium chloride, effect on asci, 238 

 Sodium hydrate, effect on asci, 238 

 Sordarise, heliotropism, 75 

 Sordarieie, fixation of spores, 244 

 Sound produced by spore-discharge, 



258-260 

 Specific gravity of spores, 153-157 

 Specific increase in hymenial surfaces, 



28-33 

 Sporabola, nature of, 184-191 



,, correction of, 5 



Sporangiophores, heliotropism, 75 

 Spore-dissemination in Coprini, Massee's 



view, 215 

 Spores, action of convection currents 

 on, 98-100, 256 

 ,, adhesiveness, 6, 79, 133, 258 

 ,, adjustments of fruit-bodies for 



liberation of, 47-78 

 „ attachment in asci, 245-247 

 ,, colour, 12-15 

 „ comparative sizes, 254 

 ,, diminution of velocity of fall, 



180-183 

 ,, dispersion by herbivorous 

 animals, 224-226, 233, 251- 

 257 

 „ dispersion by slugs, 226-228 

 ,, dispersion by toads, 227 

 „ dispersion by wind, 216-223, 



233 

 „ distance of projection, 142, 



252-253, 255, 259 

 „ drying of, 182-183, 244 

 „ and eccentric pilei, 49 

 ,, efiect of curvature, 183 

 „ effect of humidity on rate of 



fall, 179-183 

 „ ejected endwise from asci, 242, 



243 

 ,, electric charges on, 192-195 

 „ fall in a beam of light, 94- 



101 

 ,, fixation in asci, 244-247 

 ,, germination of, 11, 25, 26, 106, 

 227-228 



