Note on Us 川 ago esculenla P. Henn. 
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K. M か 
In a i*ecent numbei. of 过か Iwigia ， (りじ Henning d が cribed unii がけ ie 
name of Iht な agi esculentci a iremarkabl け fungus parasitic on Zizania 
latifolia, which was on sale in the market of Hanoi, Tonkin, as a kind 
of vegetable. The same f*iingus is a]so in Japan, whe が it is 
likewise collect か I and sold but jfor entire か d ’Cerent び pos が . It is h 户が 
sold in apothecary shops under the na 打 w of mak ひ rri 。 '- る ii/mi or の ‘ akomono- 
nezumi meaning Zizania- clu け coal or Zizania ィ〇 ot-cli 孔 rcoal respectively. 
The olive brown powdery spores aire us か I 1 ■ヴ women haviug thin い y か 
brows to make them 10 ok h が ivi げ by painting tlie spores over them. When 
mixed in an oil, they are smeared on the scalp and haiirs by old が 
women having thin or grey hairs. At pre が nt, the spores a が large け 
u が d in the lacquer industry to produce rusty-colored wares by mixing 
them with lac. For this m:forrQation ， I owe to Pro じみ Matsuda, who 
very kindly が nt to me the last year f* 0 1. my study a large number of 
specimens of this interesting fungus together with other parasitic fungi 
collected by him in the vicinity of Tokyo. 
The hyphae of this fungus affect the raeristematic t,i が ue of a yourjg 
shoot, wh り e it is still very 811 〇け . The affected shoots ire main always 
が unted near the roots of the plant. By the stimulation of the fungus 
hyphae ， the merisf;e 的 atic ti が ue above the uppermost 凸 ode then 
developed a が umes an elongated fu 別 form or conical swel じ ng. The size 
of the swellings vaH が much in different specimen ん The larg が t one in 
(i.)Neue und intei'essanfce Pilze aus dem Konigl. わ〇お凸 . Museum in Bedi 凸， III. — 
Hedwigia Bd. XXXIV 1895 S. 10. 
