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form vapour for five minutes and then placed in ordinary air. 

 Recovery of the spore-liberating function took place after about 

 fifteen minutes. It might be expected from analogy that chloro- 

 form would prove more poisonous to the fruit-bodies than ether. 

 No attempt, however, has been made to obtain an experimental 

 basis for this assumption. 



