elxxxii Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. {N 8., XVII, 
but the white mycelial mass of sessile spheres turned green and remained 
the same throughout, like green rots on decomposed wo oods. The culture 
of Xylaria sp. under —— jar was kept on for more than two and half 
ring. 
half a ts ozen — ve Xylaria spp. from different termite 
combs othe — § Baie carried on. ‘The general results were almost 
r differences acted were regarding the lengths of 
iv ess 
have bee t 
for identification. During this eulture-perio iod, the mpera- 
ture aa —— 88° to 81°F. ~ the minimum racioeth pany 7? ‘ 68°F. 
above-ground a of rs nest of Termes obesus were 
cllacti in " July 1920 a good ee of big white mushrooms with a 
nue. 
270 with 17 good plates. His conclusions mainly are that the termites 
maintain a pure culture, that they weed < all foreign fungi except t the 
edible one (which might be either Lentimu 8, Collybia, Pluteus, Pholitoa 
at 
minate it and that it is only kept under and all other fungi which deve- 
vi in cultures dubsstguantie. are due to infection after removal from 
the ne 
nd this is fully borne out in our case when we consider 
of Xylaria stromata growing on logs, sticking to the — wall of oe 
termite nest and on dead prostrate trunks and rotten wood here and 
e 
a oO 
from the nests by various mites, insects or ants. A conan So sections 
of intestines of different types (w ei and soldiers) ~ ‘diffrent species 
of termites show —— of fragments of some fungal hyphae, oval 
spores and some w regs = spiral, leehada: ete.), + sie show how the 
fungi are propagat tae from 
Chemical analysis of qe ie stalk ed white mushrooms (Pluteus) 
from the pt te nests shows ra t they contain 2°25 per cent proteids, 1°2 
per cent carbohydrates and fats, -21 per cent ; it could not be ascertained 
whethe cag tere are edible or ace: as the island is uninhabitated by any 
ing 
— on the plant ecology of Tehri, oe State —By 
. A. Kenoyer and Winrieitp Dup 
Tehri, Garhw4l State, has an area of about 4,200 sq.m. lying entirely 
withinthe Himalayas. The topography is very rough ; elevations range 
