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MYCOLOGY 



bodies growing on sticks and logs where they can dry up without any 

 loss of vitaHty. They revive after a rainfall and resume the function 

 of discharging spores and the discharged spores are capable of germina- 



Fig. 24. — Pholiola aJiposa growing from a wound in a living tree (edible). 

 (After Patterson, Floraw and Charles, Vera K., Bzill. 175, U. S, Dept. Agric, Apr.[2S, 

 1915-) 



tion. DcBdalea (Fig. 202), Polystictus and Stereum are typical genera of 

 the xerophy tic log flora. Buller ^ describes the fruit bodies of Schizophyl- 

 lum commune as possessing special adaptations for a xerophytic mode of 

 1 BuLLER A. H. Reginald: Researches on Fungi, 1909: ^64. 



