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GENERAL INDEX 



Spores, mass, 251, 253, 254 

 „ nuclei, 11 

 „ number, 82-89 

 „ path between gills, &c, 184- 



189 

 „ position in falling, 176-177 

 „ position on basidium, 6 

 „ rate of emission of, 82, 83, 85, 



86, 206 

 „ rate of fall, 255-256 

 „ separation after leaving ascus, 



235, 243, 244 

 „ settling of, 223 



size, 158-163 

 „ sound produced by discharge 



of, 258-260 

 ,, specific gravity, 153-157 

 ,, streams of, 96 

 ,, successive projection from a 



basidium, 144-146 

 „ time of fall from hymenium to 



ground, 216 

 ,, walls of, 14 



,, wind-borne, comparisons of, 

 248 

 Spore-deposits, 79-84, 98-100 



,, ,, of Uoprinus comatus, 203, 



206, 208 

 Spore-discharge, in Hirneola auricula- 

 jiohv, 5 

 „ „ mechanism of, 148- 



152 

 Spore-fall, continuity of, 120 



„ period, 92, 102-104, 206 

 Springtails visit fruit-bodies, 20 

 Stereum, dispersion of spores, 220 



„ effect of inverting fruit- 

 bodies, 21 

 „ fall of spores to ground, 



217 

 „ spore-fall period, 102 



„ spore- stream, 96 



„ a xerophytic genus, 109 

 Stert urn bicolor, desiccation, 111 

 Stereum hirsutum, desiccation, 111 



„ „ spore-fall period, 103 



Stereum purpurea m, desiccation, 111 

 „ ,, recovery of frozen 



fruit-bodies, 126- 

 127 

 „ „ spore - fall period, 



103 

 Sterigma, neck of, 6, 9 

 Sterility, occasional, of fruit-bodies, 15- 

 17, 26 

 „ of Polyporus squamosus, 57- 



59 

 „ of Lent in us lepideus, 48 

 ,, of Stropharia sewviglobata, 26 



Stipe, abnormal, in Mushroom, 54 

 „ barren, 48 

 „ elongation in Goprinus comatus, 



214 

 „ functions, 39-45, 218 

 ,, tensions, 42, 43 

 Stokes' Law, first direct test of, 3, 164- 



174, 177-178 

 Stropharia, stipe, 41 



,, violent projection of spores, 



137 

 Stropharia semir/lobata, spore-dispersion, 

 217 

 ,, „ sterility, 26 



,, ,, visits of Collem- 



bola, 20 

 Substratum, effect on fruit-bodies, 55 

 Sulphuric acid discharges asci, 238 

 Surface tension, effect on ascus jet, 

 242 



Thelephore.e, hymenium, 27 



,, xex-ophytic species, 111 



Theobald on Fungus Gnats, 20 

 Thomson, J. J., on the electronic charge, 



164, 165 

 Tilletia caries, number of spores, 85 

 Toads and Hymenomycetes, 227 

 Transpiration, effect of, 24, 210, 219, 



222 

 Tremellinere, hymenium, 27 



„ spore-discharge, 5 



Tricholoma humile and slugs, 226 

 Tricholoma personatum, hymenium, 30, 

 31 

 „ „ system of gills, 



" 35 

 Trogia, a xerophytic genus, 109 

 Trogia crispa, desiccation, 111 

 Truffles, spore-dispersion, 257 

 Tuberacere, spore-dispersion, 257 

 Types, different, in Agaricineae, 210-214 



Umbrella Fungi, mechanics of, 43, 



44 

 Uredinea?, nuclei, 11-12 

 Ustilago carlo, sunlight and spores, 26 



Velum partiale, use of, 46 



Voglino, P., on dispersal of spores by 



slugs and toads, 226-227 

 Von Schrenk, H., on Polyporus Schwt in- 



itzii, 89 



Wakefield, F. W., on spore-discharge 

 in Pilobolus, 259 



