CONTENTS 

 PART I. MYCOLOGY 



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CHAPTER I. — General Statement and Classification . . . i 



CHAPTER 11. — Slime Moulds (Mvxomycetes) . 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; 

 Lichen 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 . . . . . . .89 



CHAPTER XL— Mould Fungi . . ... 92 



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

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

 Mortierellaceae; Choanephoracese; ChEetocladiaceae; Piptocephalidaceae; 

 Entomophthoraceae; Bibliography. 



CHAPTER XII. — Oospore-producing Algal Fungi . . . 107 



Sexual Reproduction; Haploid and Diploid State; Key to P'amilies; Mono- 

 blepharidaceae; Saprolegniaceae; Peronosporaceae; Generic Key to Family 

 Peronosporaces. 



