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made up to the present time is not in proportion to the time and 

 energT^' expended, due to certain difficulties, some inherent in 

 the nature of the plants themselves, and others due to the lack of 

 an adequate knowledge of their anatomy and development. The 

 second period, that of the study of the morphology and develop- 

 ment, began more than half a cenury ago. It is true that in the 

 early part of the 19th century, nearly a century ago, quite an 

 elaborate theory of the development of the Hymeniales, especially 

 the Agaricaceae. was evolved by Nees von Esenbeck. But his 

 theory, embellished as it is with his philosophical ideas of the 

 evolution and metamorphosis of these plants from the puffballs 

 and truffles; in which he was evidently influenced by the phil- 

 osophy expressed in the J'o7'zvort of Goethe's Farhenlehre, that 

 in a book dealing with natural phenomena the writer should make 

 use of a lively imagination in order to make it real to the reader ; 

 and especially because there is such a lack of definiteness as to 

 the forms studied, though it is quite evident he refers more 

 especially to species of Amanita, presents little that is helpful 

 to the present discussion. At that early period it was an important 

 forward step to show, as Dutrochet did, in 1834, that the large 

 fungi were only the fruit bodies of the plants then known as 

 "Byssus," which spread usually underground or in the substance 

 of organic bodies ; and for Trog in 1837 to recognize the two 

 different parts in the life history, the vegetative stage or 

 mycelium and the fruiting stage or carpophore, and that this is 

 the product of germinating spores ; though Micheli had stated as 

 early as 1729 that the fruit bodies of some fungi did not come 

 immediately from the seed (spores), but the seeds first produce 

 a large root which grows for several years in the ground, and 

 then gives rise to the fruit body (referring to Poly poms 

 tuberaster). But during the early and middle portion of the 19th 

 century the work on the morphology and anatomy of these plants, 

 and the descriptions and illustrations of species, was far in ad- 

 vance of the work on development and the organization of the 

 parts of the fruit body. Unfortunately the study of the 

 morphology and development of the Hymeniales has not kept pace 

 with the same studies in other groups of plants. 



Kauffman, C. H. 



In the 8th Annual Report of the Michigan Academy of 

 Science, Mr. Kauffman lists many "Unreported Fungi" from 

 Petoskey, Detroit, and Ann Arbor, for 1905, the names with 

 localities covering about ten or more pages. A new species of 

 Cortinarius is given, namely, C. rnhripes. It has an oval bulb 

 that is deep brick red to vemiillion, shading off to a pellucid 

 pinkish tinge at the apex of stem. The stem is attached to roots 

 of Acer saccharinum and Quercus rubra on which it forms 

 niycorhica. 



