32 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



after that one day's display, there would bo no more perhaps for two or three or six 

 years ! I never saw any ou or near the stable dung, where one niiglit more naturally 

 have expected to find them ; nor did I ever hear of any other person having found 

 them ; that is to say — if they were observed also by others, as they may well have 

 been, I never heard of it. 



" Some persons have inferred, from the springing up of mushrooms whenever 

 particular soils and decomposed organic matter are mixed together, that the produc- 

 tion of Fungi is accidental " (spontaneous ?) " and not analogous to that of perfect 

 plants. But Fries, whose authority on these questions is entitled to the highest 

 respect, has shown the fallacy of this argument iu favour of the doctrine of equivocal 

 generation. ' The sporules of Fungi,' says this naturalist, ' are so infinite that in 

 a single individual of Eeticularia maxima, I have counted above ten millions, and so 

 subtle as to be scarcely visible, often resembling thin smoke ; so light that they may 

 perhaps be raised by evaporation into the atmosphere, and dispersed in so many ways 

 h\ the attraction of the sun, by insects, wind, elasticity, adbesion, etc., that it is 

 difficult to conceive a place from which they may be excluded.' " ' 



If we grant full weight to this statement, it still remains a most remarkable and 

 in many ways unaccountable fact, that the mushrooms in my compound should have 

 come up after intervals of several years, in the very same place, and (as far as my 

 obsei'vation went) nowhere else ; especially as, being gathered by me as soon as seen, 

 they had no opportunity of ripening and shedding their sporules. After their first 

 arrival on the sp<it. it must be jiresumed that their vitality lay dormant in the 

 Mijcelium underground. 



A. (Htpholom.*.) ArPENTHCTTLATUs, Fr. Maulmain, P. 



Lentixus coadunatus. Hook. fil. Maulmain, P. 



L. CAPKOXATUS, Fr. Myo-dwyn, Pegu. 



L. DESCEiTDENSi Fr. Htou-kyc-gat, Pegu. 



L. FiJEfDEOsus, Fr. Pegu Yo-mu Range. 



L. TELUTEN-us, Fr. Pcgu Yo-nui Range. 



L. GLABKATUs, Mont. N. Rajmahal Hills, Bengal. 



L. SAJOE CAJU, Fr. S. Andaman. 



(Malay name for the plant). 



L. EsiLis, Fr. Htou-kye-gat, Nakawa. Pegu. 



L. INGUINANS, Berk. Kemendine, Rangoon. 



L. KuitziA^'us, Currey. Pegu Yo-ma Range. 



L. c^spiiosus, Currey. Pegu. 



L. lEHECiriAEis, Currey. Pine forests, Karen country. 



Maeasmius Paeishh, Cooke. My compound, Maulmain, P. 



M. Buemensis, Cooke. ^ My compound, Maulmain. P. 



ScHizopuYLLUM coiiiirNE, Fr. Botanic garden, Calcutta. Ross Island, 

 Andamans. Htou-kye-gat, Pegu. K. Maulmain. P. 



Leuzites albida, Fr. Htou-kye-gat, Pegu. 



L. Palisoti, Fr. Seven Pagodas, Toimg-ngoo. Htou-kye-gat. 



L. ocnEOPHYLLA, Berk. Maulmain. P. 



Polyporei. 



PoLTPOKirs (Mesopds) peeennis, Fr. Sent by Dr Stoliczka fi'om Pcnang. 

 P. (Mesopds) XANinorus. Nakawa. Htou-kyc-gat. Tsittoung Valley. 



Yo-ma. S. Andamans. K. Maulmain. P. 

 P. (Mesopus) floeideus, Berk.' Pegu. Bookce, Karen Hills. 



P. (Mesopus) htpoblastus, Berk. Howrah, Calcutta, on bamboo. 

 P. (Mesopus) ceassipes, Currey. Pegu Yo-ma. 



" Only a young state of P. xanthopus," Cooke. 



' 'VSliole passage extracted from Lyell, Principles of Geology, vol. ii. p. 391. 

 ^ Allied to M. tnmeii/is, but certainly not the same. — Cooke. 

 ' First found by Spruce at Panure, Amazon, S. Am. 



