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•with deep pores. Brefeld (5, p. 106) reported in Trametes serialis 

 aerial oidia which would germinate and made the observation that 

 their formation occurred only on young mycelium, never on old. 

 The writer's cultures have developed no oidia. The oidia and 

 chlamydospores in Lenzites trabea have not been reported. No 

 secondary form has been noted in Fames roseus. Chlamydospores 

 have been seen in cultures of Lenzites sepiaria, but have been scarce. 

 They could not have appeared abundantly in Falck's cultures, for 

 he little more than mentions them. All his references to secondary 

 spore production by this fungus are to the oidia, and he describes no 

 physiological tests upon the chlamydospores. 



Oidia have appeared to a limited extent in the submerged my- 

 celium of Lenzites sepiaria, chiefly in the hanging agar drop cultures 

 (PI. Ill, figs. 3 and 10), while the aerial oidia have been quite abun- 

 dant with some variations (PI. Ill, figs. 4-7; and PI. VIII, fig. 1). 

 Oidia have been quite abundant also in wood cultures. What little 

 aerial mycelium forms on either wood or agar breaks up almost en- 

 tirely to oidia. The occurrence and method of formation has been 

 described sufficiently by Falck (.75, pp. 139-140). He describes pri- 

 mary, secondary, and tertiary oidia according as they are formed on 

 primary, secondary, or tertiary mycelium. The secondary oiclia 

 are never formed on the natural substrate of the fungus, according 

 to him, but abundantly on agar, while the whole superficial growth 

 of tertiary mycelium on agar or wood forms oidia in moist air. 

 Chlamydospores and chlamydosporelike bodies (PI. Ill, figs. 12 and 

 13) are found in small numbers upon the submerged mycelium. The 

 secondary mycelium of Lenzites trabea develops oidia in abundance 

 (PI. IV, fig. 2) and chlamydospores in fair numbers (PI. IV, figs. 3 

 and 4). The oidia are formed on the superficial mycelium and the 

 ehlamydospores on the submerged so far as can be determined. 

 Some of the latter spores are thin walled and appear much like 

 rounded oidia. Many of the chlamydospores show the contraction 

 of the protoplasm and the abandoned cross walls (PL IV, fig. 4), 

 as in the chlamysdospores of Trametes serialis and Lentinus lepideus. 



The chlamydospores of Trametes serialis (PI. IV, figs. 6, 7, 8; and 

 PI. VIII, fig. 2) have appeared regularly in the writer's cultures 

 ami fairly abundantly. They arc found for the most part on the 

 submerged mycelium, although sparingly in the aerial fruiting my- 

 celium at the upper end of older agar slant cultures, where abortive 

 fruit bodies are formed. The method of development is that de- 



SCribed by Lyman for' other basidiom yeetes (->/, p. 150, pis. 1!>, 21, 



and 22) and illustrated in Plate IV, figure 6, and Plate VIII, figure 2. 



The chlamydospores of Lentitivs lepideus (PI. V, figs. I and 5) 



have never been found abundantly. They occur in a living condition 



