1895.] 



MICROSCOPICAL JOURNAL. 



49 



Mould and Other Growths Found in the Seed Cavity of Apples. 



By Iv. M. MOOERS, 

 TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Ill the American Monthly Microscopical Journal for 

 January, 1894, appeared an article by Dr. A. C. Stokes, 

 entitled "A Mouldy Puzzle" in which he describes the 

 appearance of a certain growth found in the core cavity 

 of apples and which he characterized as a "fungus." 



White growth from wall of seed-cavity of an apple. 

 I had often noticed this growth, without giving it any 

 special attention, but upon reading Dr. Stokes' article 

 and seeing a chance to "puzzle it out" and make myself 

 famous, I began to hunt for the spores and for the my- 

 celial threads outside the core cavity which he says 

 "must be there." While I rarely failed to find the 



