GEXEKAL 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 

 Rhodosporre, descent of, 12 

 Rhythmic development, of Ascoboli, 257 

 „ „ of Coprini, 74- 



75 

 Ru bland, W., on nuclei, 9 

 Russula, cvstidia, 18 

 stipe, 41, 42 

 and slugs, 226-229 

 violent projection of spores, 

 137 

 Russula citrina, and slugs, 226, 230 



specific increase in by- ] 

 menial surface, 30, 31 ! 

 Russula 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 

 Schizophvllum, continuity of spore-fall, 

 120 

 ,, dispersion of spores, 220 



spore stream, 96 

 a unique genus, 113 

 a xerophytic genus, 109 

 Schizophyllurn 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 I'e::i;.a repanda, 

 245 



Sexuality of Hymenonvycetes, 10-12 

 Silver nitrate discharges asci, 238 

 Size of spores, 158-163, 25 1 

 Slugs, and cystidia, 18 



dispersal of spores by, 226 229 

 and xerophytes, 112 

 Smith, Worthington, on Coprinus 

 radiatus, 7~> 

 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 

 Sordariete, 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 

 ,, effect 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 



