CONTENTS 

 PART I. MYCOLOGY 



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CHAPTER I. — General Statement and Classification i 



CHAPTER II.— Slime Moulds (Myxomycetes) 7 



CHAPTER III.— The Bacteria in General 21 



Name; Size; Locomotion; Cell Division and Reproduction; Photogens; 



Chromogens; Thermogens; Aerobism and Anaerobism. 



CHAPTER IV.— Classification of Bacteria • 28 



According to Nutrition; Prototrophic Bacteria; Metatrophic Bacteria; 



Paratrophic Bacteria; Systematic Account of the Bacteria; Bibliography. 



CHAPTER V. — Characteristics of the True Fungi 42 



CHAPTER VI. — Histology and Chemistry of Fungi 52 



Histology; Cell Contents; Colors; Physiology; Enzymes; Classification of 



Enzymes in Fungi; Chemotaxis. 

 CHAPTER VII.— General Physiology of Fungi 61 



Influence of Light; Luminosity; Liberation of Spores. 

 CHAPTER VIII.— Ecology of Fungi 69 



Saprophytes and Parasites; Sclerotia; Galls; Habitats; Xerophytism; 



lachen Fungi. 

 CHAPTER IX.— Fossil Fungi and Geographic Distribution 82 



Fossil Fungi; Geographic Distribution; Habitats of Lichens; Distribution of 



Chestnut Blight; Laboulbeniaceae; Family Clathraceae. 

 CHAPTER X. — Phylogeny of Fungi ^9 



CHAPTER XL— Mould Fungi ' ' ^^ 



Order Zygomycetales; Sexual Reproduction; Spores and Sporangia; Fer- 

 mentation; Key to Families of the Order Zygomycetales; Mucoracese; 

 I^Iortierellacea;; Choanephoracea;; Chaetocladiacea;; Piptocephalidaceae; 

 Entomophthoraceae; Bibliography. 



CHAPTER XII.— Oospore-producing Algal Fungi 107 



Sexual Reproduction; Haploid and Diploid State; Key to Families; Mono- 

 blepharidaces; Saprolegniaceae; Peronosporaceae; Generic Key to Family 

 Peronosporaceee. 



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