TRANSLATION. 



lagttageher anstillede i Lobet af Vinteren, 1863-64, som 

 have ledet til Opdagehen af de hidtil ukjendte Befrugt- 



NINGSORGANER hos BlADSVAMPENE. Af Piof. A. S. 



Oersted. {Observations made in the course of the Winter 

 0/1863-64, which have led to the discovery of the hitherto 

 unknown Organs of Fructification in the Agaricini. 

 By Prof. A. S. Oersted.) 



(' Oversigt over det Kougelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forliaad- 

 linger." Copenhageu, 1865, p. 11, pis. i, ii.) 



1. 



Although, within the last decade, organs of fructification 

 have been demonstrated in so many of tlie lowest cryptogams, 

 that we are justified in assuming that a distinction of sex 

 pervades the whole plant-world, as well as that, as regards 

 the maintenance of the species, fructification is of the same 

 import for the spore-bearing as for the flowering plants — 

 nevertheless, there are whole great groups, especially in the 

 class of Fungi, in which organs of fertilisation are still quite 

 unknown. Thus, this applies to the Agaricini (Bladsvampe), 

 which, as well as by their complex structure, their richness 

 in forms, and their size, take the highest j^lace in the system 

 of Fungi. Gleditsch and BuUiard, certainly, have already 

 attributed the same import as that of the stamens of flower- 

 ing plants to the cylindrical or clavate cells, discovered by 

 Micheli in 1729, and designated as " filamenta " or '' ste- 

 mones,"" which so frequently occur amongst the basidia in 

 Agarics ;* and so also afterwards Leveille, who brought the 

 name " Cystidia " for these organs into use, and esjDecially 

 Corda,t who called them '' Pollinaria," and compared them 

 with the pollen-grains in the flowering plants, and likewise 



* ' Der Befmchtungsprocess im Pilauzeureiche,' von L. Radlkofer, p. 2. 

 t " Ueber Micheli's Antheren der Fleischpilze," ' Flora (Regeusburg),' 

 ]834, i, p. 113. 'Icones Fungor/ torn, iii, p. 44. 



