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which (at least for one of them — ‘ sporophyte ’), with the meaning at- 
tached to them in Goebel’s Outlines, De Bary is primarily responsible. 
The term ‘ sporophore,’ or rather a latinised form, ‘ sporophorum,’ 
appears to have been first used by Link in the sense in which we now 
employ ‘ placenta ’ in speaking of Phanerogams, but in this sense, like 
several other terms for the same structure, never came into general use. 
In 1839 Berkeley used the term in the form of ‘ sporophori ’ for the 
structures in Fungi, which, as it turned out, Leveilld had shortly before 
designated ‘ basidia,’ by which term they are now usually known, 
distinguishing in this way structures in which spores are exogenetic, 
from ‘ sporidia,’ structures producing *endogenetic spores, and which 
we now usually speak of as ‘ asci.’ His terminology is consistently 
followed out in the works of the veteran English Mycologist. 
The first employment of ‘ sporophore ’ and ‘ oophore ’ as the equi- 
valents of ‘ asexual generation ’ and ‘ sexual generation ’ with which I 
am acquainted is in the article ‘Vegetable Biology,’ by Thiselton Dyer, 
in the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and there no 
previous authority is assigned for the use of the terms with this signifi- 
cation. The adaptation of the words was in many ways a very 
convenient one, for some such expressive terms were wanted, and in 
oral teaching in Britain they have been widely adopted, although it is 
only within the last few years that they have crept into teaching-books. 
As preceding uses of £ sporophore ’ had not become general, there was 
no real objection to Thiselton Dyer’s terminology, and I should 
probably not have suggested any alteration but for a difficulty which 
cropped up in the preparation of the English edition of De Bary’s Com- 
parative Morphology and Biology of Fungi, Mycetozoa, and Bacteria. 
The difficulty was the following. It was necessary to find an 
English equivalent for the German £ Fruchttrager,’ as used by De Bary 
in his book in the sense of any structure having spores. ‘Carpo- 
phore,’ the literal rendering, and other compounds of Kapnos, as well 
as £ fructification ’ and ‘ fruit,’ were impossible because they are 
reserved properly for structures which are the product of the sexual 
act, and in that way do not cover the ground included in ‘Fruchttrager,’ 
and moreover ‘ fructification ’ in this proper sense is used in the volume. 
The general term ‘receptacle,’ which has been elsewhere employed 
to translate ‘ Fruchttrager,’ has already so many special meanings 
attached to it, that it would have been misleading and unwise to make 
use of it. 
