GENERAL INDEX 



485 



Polyporus Schu'einitzii, illustration of, 



100 



,, visible spore- 



clouds, 100, 

 104 



Polyporus squamosus, annual fruit- 

 bodies, 128 

 drop-excretion, 



5,9 

 ,, ,, elongation of 



tubes, 142 

 exhaustion of 



tubes, 144 

 ,, mode of fall of 



spores, 35 



,, number of 



spores, 138, 

 139 



rate of fall of 

 spores, 39-40 



,, ,, significance of 



vast spore 

 numbers, 144 

 spore - fall 

 period, 95, 

 135, 138 

 violence of 

 spore-dis- 

 charge, 169 



visible spore- 



clouds, 100, 

 132 

 Polyporus sulphureus, and Fomes offici- 



nalis, 127 



,, illustration of, 117 



,, ,, imbrication of, 



118-120, 460 



Polyporus utnbellatus, compound fruit- 

 bodies of, 120, 460 

 Polystictus, absorption of water, 157 

 lignicolous habit of, 157 



,, retention of vitality, 160 

 Polystictus hirsutus, drop-excretion, 9 

 Polystictus perennis, confluent fruit- 

 bodies of, 81 

 Polystictus versicolor, andelugs, 212, 214, 



216 



annual fruit- 



bodies, 128 



,, ,, imbrication of, 120 



spore-fall period, 



95, 135 

 Polytrichum spores, and Stokes' Law, 



21-22 

 Popuhis, escape of seeds, 300 



Porphyrosporae, drop-excretion, 9 



mottling in, 253, 254 



Position of sterigmata, 314-324 

 Powdering of gills with spores, 307, 308 

 Protohydnum, and Hydnum, 163-164 

 Protomerulius, and Merulius, 163-164 

 Psalliota, and Panaeolus Sub-type, 238 



and slugs, 212 

 germ-pore, 452 

 mottling in, 253 



,, position of hymenium, 170 

 ,, rigidity and spore-fall period. 



135 



,, slow spore-development, 53 

 ,, spore-crops of a single basi- 



dium, 27 



,, summary, 457 

 Psalliota ari'ensis, fairy rings, 365 



liberating spores, 400 



mottling, 254 



Psalliota campestris, account of, 360-449 

 ,, ammonia given off 



from, 372 



,, analysis of hymen- 



ium, 414-449 

 and Hydna, 151 



and Panaeolus Sub- 



type, 361, 404 

 and Secotium agari- 



coides, 451 

 andtext-books,404- 



405 



and the Aequi-hy- 



meniiferae, 236- 

 238 



,, ,, bisporous basidia, 



1, 407, 408, 410- 

 '411,416 

 ,, ,, clamp - connections 



absent, 395-396 

 drop carried with 



spore, 15 

 drop-excretion, 9- 



13 



,, ,, each basidium pro- 



duces only one 

 crop of spores, 28 

 eaten by squirrels, 



201 



effects of tilting,375 



external appear- 



ance of fruit - 

 bodies, 369-372 

 fairy rings of, 363- 



