ii 4 TEXT-BOOK OF FUNGI 



De Bary, Fungi, Mycetozoa, and Bacteria (Engl. ed.), 

 pp. 89, 328. 



Magnin, Compt. Rend., 1891, pp. 176, 232. 

 Massee and Salmon, Ann. Bot. 5, p. 313 (i 90 1). 

 Woronin, Mem. de PAcad. Imp. St. Peter sb., ser. 7, 36. 



DISPERSION OF SPORES AND CONIDIA 



In the Basidiomycetes and the Ascomycetes wind is 

 the most general agent in dispersing spores. Voglino 



FIG. 38. Hymenium of Phallus impudicus partly 

 covered with olive-green mucus, in which the very 

 minute spores are embedded. Several flies are 

 present devouring the mucus. Nat. size. 



has shown that slugs eat fleshy agarics, especially the 

 hymenium, and spores commence to germinate in the 



