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GENERAL INDEX 



Dacryomyces deliquescens, absorption of 

 water, 157- 

 158 



,, ,, basidial and 



oidial fruit- j 

 bodies, 171- 

 179 



,, drop - excre- 



tion, 9, 171 

 ,, illustrations 



of, 173, 175 



,, ,, position of 



hymenium 

 and violence 

 of spore- ! 

 discharge, 

 170, 176 



,, ,, rate of spore - 



develop- 

 ment, 8, 44, 

 46, 49, 54, 

 161 



., revival after 



desiccation, 

 160, 176 



,, ,, spore - dis- 



charge, 156 

 ,, systematic 



description, 

 178-179 



violence of 



spore - dis- 

 charge, 169, 

 176, 192 



Dacryomyces stillatus, 172, 173, 177, 179 



Dacryomyceteae, and Tremellineae, 156 



,, basidial structure, 164, 



167-168 



,, drop-excretion, 9 



,, violence of spore-dis- 



charge, 169 



Daedalea confragosa, interrupted spore- 

 fall period, 116- 

 117, 460 

 ,, number of spore?, 



138, 139 



Daldinia concentrica, spore-wall, 52 

 Daldinia vernicosa, spore-wall, 52 

 Dangeard, P. A., on Dacryomyces deli- 

 quescens, 174 

 Deakin, P. T., slugs named by, 216, 



228 



Death of basidia, 273 

 De Bary, on paraphyses, 3 

 Deer, and fungi, 207 



Deliquescence (autodigestion), 241, 371- 



372 



Demelius, Fran, on paraphyses, 2 

 De Seynes, on paraphyses, 2 

 Desiccation, and fairy rings, 366 



and fruit-bodies, 157, 160, 



161, 399^00 

 and mycelium, 246, 347 

 Dickinson, S., on Fames applanatus, 133 

 Dietel, P., on spore-discharge in Ure- 



dineae, 168 

 Discomycetes, ascus-gun, 32-33 



,, violence of spore-dis- 



charge and position of 

 hymenium, 170 



Disterigmatic basidia, 316-317, 457 

 Doern, A. H., on squirrels as mycopha- 



gists, 209 



Drop, carried with spore, 7, 13-17 

 Drop-excretion, abnormal or absent, 17- 



19,48 

 ,. and rate of fall of spores, 



26 



., and Stokes' Law, 20 



chemistry of, 18-20 

 ,, function of, 24-26 



., general account, 8-20 



historical remarks on, 



4-5 



illustrations of, 7, 10, 

 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 

 272, 287, 290, 292, 

 308,338,407,416,429 

 ,, in Calocera cornea, 4-8 



,, size of drops, 11-13 



Dwarf fruit-bodies, 82-88, 459 



EDIBLE fungi, Marasmius oreades, 93- 



94 

 ,, ,, parasitised Lactarius 



piperatus, 68-69 

 Edmonds, J., photograph by, 81 

 Elaphomyces granulatus, eaten by squir- 

 rels, 195, 198 

 illustration of, 



198 

 Elliott, W. T., on slugs as mycophagists, 



219, 221 



Empusa, spore-discharge, 26 

 Endophyllaceae, 169 

 Endophyllum Euphorbiae-sylvaticae, vio- 

 lence of spore-discharge, 169 

 Entoloma prunuloides, drop carried with 



spore, 14-15 

 ,, drop-excretion, 9 



