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Tube-layer in Fomes fomentarius The Geotropism of Fomes fomentarius 

 Fruit-bodies The Attachment of Fomes fomentarius Fruit-bodies -The 

 Spore-fall Period of Fomes igniarius Winter Break in the Spore-fall 

 Period of Daeilalea confragosa Solitary and Imbricated Fruit-bodies of 

 Polyporeae, etc. . . . . . . . . . .95 



CHAPTER V 



FOMES APPLANATUS AND ITS SPORE-DISCHARGE PERIOD 



Habitat and Hosts A Wound Parasite Spore Structure The Longevity 

 of the Fruit -body The Longevity of Various Polyporeae The Hymenial 

 Tubes The Spore-discharge Period A Comparison of the Spore-fall 

 Period of Certain Hymenomycetes The Mechanical Consistence of 

 Coprinus and Fomes Fruit-bodies Contrasted The Number of Spores in 

 Fomes applanatus and Other Basidiomycetes The Cause of the Long 

 Spore-discharge Period in Fomes applanatus The Progressive Exhaus- 

 tion of the Hymenial Tubes The Significance of the Production of 

 Vast Numbers of Spores 121 



CHAPTER VI 



SPORE-DISCHARGE IN THE HYDNEAE, TREMELLINEAE, 

 CLAVARIEAE, AND EXOBASIDIEAE 



Preliminary Remarks Spore-discharge in the Hydneae Spore-discharge in 

 the Tremellineae The Basidial and Oidial Fruit-bodies of Dacryomyces 

 deliquescent Spore-discharge in the Clavarieae The Genus Calocera 

 Spore-discharge in the Exobasidieae ....... 149 



CHAPTER VII 



THE RED SQUIRREL OF NORTH AMERICA AS A MYCOPHAGIST 



Introduction Squirrels Observed Eating Fungi Winter Stores of Fungi 

 Storage in Bulk Storage in the Forked Branches of Trees The Storage 

 of Fungi in Relation to Climate Two Chickens Hung in a Tree 

 Summary . 195 



CHAPTER VIII 



SLUGS AS MYCOPHAGISTS 



Introduction Slug-damaged Fungi in an English W 7 ood Slugs and Poisonous, 

 Acrid, or Cystidia-bearing Agaricineae Absence of Slugs from a Wood 

 in Central Canada Some Conclusions The Finding of Fungi by Slugs 

 Previous Chemotactic Experiments New Chemotactic Experiments- 

 Experiments I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII Slugs and Mustard Gas- 

 Conclusions ........ .212 



