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GENERAL INDEX 



Scleroderma vulgare, basidial spore- 

 number, 30 

 illustrations of, 



30, 31 



sterigmata of, 31 



Secotium acuminatum, 449 

 Secotium agaricoides, account of, 449- 



455, 466 

 ,, ,, illustrations of, 450, 



451, 453, 454 



Seton, E. T., drawings by, 199, 200 

 ,, ,, on storage of fungi by 



squirrels, 207-208 

 ,, on the Red Squirrel, 197 



Sex and sterile fruit-bodies, 73-74 

 Shantz and Piemeisel, on fairy rings, 94, 



365-368 

 Sistotrema confluens, hexasterigmatic 



basidia, 319 

 Slugs, and stimulatory substances in 



food, 217 



as mycophagists, 212-235, 462 

 ,, chemotactic experiments with, 



222-234 

 ,, general absence of, in central 



Canada, 220 

 ., homing of, 225 



,, plan of ground used for experi- 

 ments on, 230 

 ,, rate of progress, 225 

 senses of smell and sight, 221, 235 

 Smith, W., on spore-production in a 



Mushroom, 27 

 Sparassis, hymenium of, 188 



illustrations of, 188, 189, 190 

 placed in Thelephoreae, 188 

 possible origin from a Cla- 



varia, 190 

 Sparassis crispa, experiment upon, 188- 



190 

 ., gravity and position of 



hymenium, 184 

 Spaulding, P., on longevity of Fomes 



igniarius, 126 

 ,, ,, on squirrels and Cronar- 



tium ribicola, 202-203 

 Spermatozoa and spores, 303 

 Spines, packing of, and basidial guns, 67 

 Sporabola, nature of, 34 



,, of Panaeolus campanulatus, 



249, 287, 289-290 

 of Psalliota campestris, 390 

 Spores, abnormalities, 320 

 adhesiveness of, 17 

 and fairy rings, 368-369 



Spores, and microtome sections, 362 



and spermatozoa, 303 

 ,, arrangement on adjacent basidia 



of a Mushroom, 427^28 

 bifurcate, 319, 320 

 ,, carry away proteins, 435 

 ,, chromosporous, and rate of de- 

 velopment, 51-52 

 ,, desiccation of, 42 

 ,, development and temperature, 



56-57 

 ,, development in Panaeolus cam,- 



panulatus, 266 

 ., development in Stropharia semi- 



globata, 340 

 ,, falling down narrow hymenial 



tubes, 112, 128, 132 

 ,, germ-pore, 452 

 individual, rate of development, 



43-47 



misshapen, 310, 320 

 ,, monstrous, 344 

 ,, normal and abnormal develop- 

 ment, 46-48 

 ., number emitted from hymenial 



tubes, 130-131 

 ,, number of, in Fomes igniarius, 



116 

 ,, number of, in Hypomyces lacti- 



fiuorum, 62 



,, number of, in Panaeolus cam- 

 panulatus, 259 



,, number of, in Psalliota campes- 

 tris, 402-404 

 ,, number of, in various Basidio- 



mycetes, 137-141 



,, number produced by a single 



basidium, 27-28 ' * 



number produced by a small 



hymenial area, 298 

 . , of Armillaria mellea, seen falling, 



100-102 

 ,, of Coprinus curtus, seen falling, 



98 

 ,, of Mushroom, dispersal of, 373- 



374, 377 

 pink, 50 



,, position while falling, 35 

 ,, projection of, in Panaeolus 



campanulatus, 289-290 

 ., rate of development, 5, 41-57, 



161, 412-414 

 rate of fall, 22, 39-40, 249, 290, 



373 

 ,, ripening processes, 55 



