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lagttagelser anstillede i Lobet af Vinieren, 1863-64^ som 

 have leclet til Opdagelsen af de hidtil ukjendte Befrugt- 



NINGSORGANEE. llOS BlADSVAMPENE. Af Prof. A. S. 



Oersted. (^Observations made in the course of the Winter 

 0/1863-64, which have led to the discovery of the hitherto 

 unknown Organs of Fructification in the Agaricini. 

 By Prof. A. S. Oersted.) 



(' Oversigt over det Kougelige danske Videnskaberues Selskabs Forhand- 

 liuger." Copenliageiij 1865, p. 11, pis. i, ii.) 



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Although, within the last decade, organs of fructification 

 have been demonstrated in so many of the lowest cryptogams, 

 that we are justified in assuming that a distinction of sex 

 pervades the Avhole plant-Avorld, as well as that, as regards 

 the maintenance of the species, fructification is of the same 

 import for the spore-bearing as for the flowering plants — 

 nevertheless, there are whole great groups, especially in the 

 class of Fungi, in which organs of fertilisation are still quite 

 unknown. Thus, this applies to the Agaricini (Bladsvampe), 

 which, as well as by their complex structure, their richness 

 in forms, and their size, take the highest place in the system 

 of Fungi. Gleditsch and Bulliard, certainly, have already 

 attributed the same import as that of the stamens of flower- 

 ing plants to the cylindrical or clavate cells, discovered by 

 Micheli in 1729, and designated as " fllamenta " or *' ste- 

 mones," which so frequently occur amongst the basidia in 

 Agarics ;* and so also afterwards Leveille, who brought the 

 name '' Cystidia " for these organs into use, and especially 

 Corda,f who called them " PoUinaria," and compared them 

 with the pollen-grains in the flowering plants, and likewise 



* ' Dcr Bcfnicliluiigsprocess im Pflauzeiireiche,' von L. Kadlkofer, p. )l. 

 t "Ueber Michcli's Aulliercii der Elcisclipilze," 'Flora (Regeiisburg)/ 

 ]S3J, i, p. llo. ' Icoiics Fungor,' torn iii, p. 41. 



