184 SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE HYMENOMYCETES. 
the Marasmii, the Hygrophori, the Russulz, the Boleti, the 
Polypori, the Hydna might all be cited, to show what hand- 
some species may be found in this department of Botany ; 
not that the interest of a plant depends on its beauty, but 
no doubt beauty is an additional attraction. And I confess 
I am trying to induce more workers in the field of Botany 
to turn their attention to this interesting province. Those 
of you who already know the plants I have been 
describing, will have followed with interest the account I 
have given of them, because the mere mention of the 
different names will have carried you in spirit to various 
meadows, and road-sides, and tree-trunks, and stumps, where 
on fine antumn days you first made the acquaintance of this 
fine Pholiota or that handsome TZ'richoloma. And those of 
- you who may not as yet have made their acquaintance, but 
have made a beginning in the study of mycology, will, I 
trust, be able to see, from what I have said, that it is not 
so very dry a subject as at first it appeared, and they may 
be encouraged to persevere. We have the great disadvan- 
tage of living in a town, but I know several excellent mycolo- 
gists, who, in spite of this disadvantage, manage to pursue the 
study with success; and, of course, the same disadvantage 
applies to flowering plants also. Interest in the study of 
these Hymenomycetes is slowly growing, and, after some 
experience in various departments of Botany, I can commend 
the subject as one the fascination of which is hardly second 
to any. 
CHROMOSOMES IN RESTING NUCLEI. 
By Miss L. H. HUIE. 
In various accounts of recent cyclological researches, especi- 
ally in several that have appeared on the function of the 
nucleus in specialised cells, descriptions have been given of 
nuclei which, although in the resting state, exhibit a 
segmentation of their chromatin which resembles the seg- 
