1894.] MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 11 



Flngge, Die Mikroorganismen, and Zopf, Die Pil/.e. 



Otlier literature on spore-formation : 



J. de Seynes: Comptes Rendus LXVIl, p. 105-109, 

 1808. x\nn. sci. nat.; Bot. Ser. V., tome X., p. 5, 18()8. 



Max Reet^s : Bot. Untersucliungen uber Alkoliolgali- 

 rungspilze, 1870; see also Botanische Zeitung, 1869, p. 

 105. 



Eidam : Gregenw. Standpunkt d. Mykologie, 1871, p. 

 30 ; 1872, p. 59-60. 



Muntz : Comp. Rend, LXXX, p. 178, 1875. 



David : Annalen der Oenologie, IV, p. 223, 1874. 



Blankenliorn and Moritz : ibid. III, p. 11, 1873. 



Engel : Les ferments alcooliques, 1872. 

 Ames, Iowa, December 1, 1893. 



(To be coniinued.) 



A Mouldy Puzzle. 



By dr. ALFRED C. STOKES, 

 TRENTON, N. J. 



I suppose that nobody cares how anybody else treats 

 his apple, that most delightful of all the fruits, before 

 he proceeds to eat it. Any one desiring to put a polish 

 on the beautiful skin may do so, if he like, after the re- 

 ported method of the street-venders, by the application 

 of a little saliva and of much friction with the coat sleeve. 

 But if you fail to open the apple before you eat it, you 

 may swallow animal food with the vegetable: you will 

 certainly devour a most beautiful fungus which you 

 probably will never see unless you cut through the horny 

 cells which contain the seeds. It was in this way that, 

 after years possibly of eating fungi, I accidentally found 

 a fine growth of this attractive mycelium, and equally 

 fine microscopic object, about which I know absolutely 

 nothing, but which I mention in the hope that the reader 



