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MYCOLOGY 



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

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

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



FiG. 24. — Pholiola adiposa growing from a wound in a living tree (edible). 

 (After Patterson, Floraw and Charles, Vera K., Bull. 175, U. S, Depl. Agric, Apr.'2$, 



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

 the xerophy tic log flora. Buller' describes the fruit bodies of Schhophyl- 

 lum commune as possessing special adaptations for a xerophytic mode of 

 ^ BuLLER, A. II. Reginald: Researches on Fungi, igog: ^64. 



