No. 488] 



NOTES AND LITERATURE 



but probably only in wet weather. In this species a number of stipes 

 may develop from the same comb. 



If a piece of fresh comb be removed from the nest and placed under 

 a bell jar the spheres will decay if the insects have been removed but 

 both spheres and external hyphtie will be eaten if the termites remain. 

 In the course of two or three days after the surface of the comb has 

 been freed from these, small jrroups of erect hyphic, indistinguishable 

 from those which give rise to the agaric. l)\ir app;irciitlv derived from 



thin structures resembling the conidinl f(»riii> of \yl;iri;i. retell liiis 



concliKles that it^' is probal.ly A'. „i;irijls. 'n.- tennire. eat this too 

 as it develops. After coiUimied rain A", nlr/ri/x-.s grows from deserted 



Besides these forms, Mucor, Tlianmi.liui.i, ( ■ei.lK.Usporiuni. a.ul 

 Peziza sometimes grow on ccmihs removed from the ik-i.. >itiee none 

 of these are found in the nests, though some of them are e;i[>;kl.le of 

 growing underground, it seems probable that the iiise.K "uee,! out" 

 undesirable fungi as they develop. 



dcfiiiitely"^proNed that tluw foftn the foo-l of tl.^ in^.t^. Tl. ■ luo 

 species stiKlie.l prefer fungi, or woo.l which ha^ ben aitackd by 

 fmigi. \Vh. ther a (litlVrence in food is a faclof in I he .litr.'n'iuialioii 



is composed of sphere, of .wollen Veils uhieh in .letail reM'inble\ he 



spheres of the frniilc ne>ts and the " Kohlrabihatifehen " of the 

 leaf-cutting ants invotiirated by Mollerare parts of a normal mycelium 

 and that their form has Ix-eii little, if at all. inodiiied by the insects. 



J. Aktiiuh Hakkis. 



The Longleaf Pine. - Schwarz's The Lrmr/kaf Pi»r ' is an attractive 

 little volnm.>. describing in a oooiilar stvle the silvics of Pin us palusfri.- 



