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In conclusion, we may urge upon all those who have followed us thus far to adopt this branch of botany as their speciality. Hitherto it has been very much neglected, and a wide field is open for investigation and research. The life-history of the majority of species has still to be read, and the prospects of new discoveries for the industrious and persevering student are great. All who have as yet devoted themselves with assiduity have been in this manner rewarded. The objects are easily obtainable, and there is a constantly increasing infatuation in the study. Where so much is unknown, not a few difficulties have to be encountered, and here the race is not to the swift so much as to the untiring. May our efforts to supply this introduction to the study receive their most welcome reward in an accession to the number of the students and investigators of the nature, uses, and influences of fungi.

The genus Chionyphe occurs on granaries under snow, as well as in that formidable disease, the Madura fungus-foot. (See Carter's "Mycetoma.")

Bubbles of air are often very tiresome in the examination of moulds. A little alcohol will remove them.

INDEX.

Æcidiacci, structure of, 41. Æcidium and Puccinia, 199. germination, 141. Agaricini, habitats of, 233. structure of, 17. Agaric of the olive, 108. Agarics, growth of, 138. Algo-lichen hypothesis, 10. Alveolate spores, 130. Amadou, 103. American floras, 281. fungi, 281. Antheridia, presumed, 171. Appearance of new forms, 248. Arrangement of families, 80. Asci and sporidia, 131. in Agarics (?), 23. their dehiscence, 59. Ascobolei, structure of, 56. Ascomycetes, classification of, 75. distribution of, 277. habitats of, 241. structure of, 55. Aspergillus glaucus, 187. Atmosphere, spores in, 214.

Barberry cluster-cups, 201. Barren cysts of Lecythea, 37. Basidiospores, 120. Beech morels, 101. Beefsteak fungus, 96. Berberry and mildew, 199. Boletus, esculent species, 95. Books on structure, 63. Bulgaria, its dualism, 198. Bunt and smut, 225. spores, germination of, 150.

Cæomacei, structure of, 36. Camp measles and fever, 213. Caudate sporidia, 134. Champignon, fairy-ring, 94. Change of colour, 114. Chantarelle, the, 93. Cholera fungi, 213. Ciliated stylospores, 124-6. Classification of Ascomycetes, 75. Coniomycetes, 69. fungi, 64. Gasteromycetes, 66. Hymenomycetes, 65. Hyphomycetes, 73. Physomycetes, 74. tabular view, 80. Collecting fungi, 287. Colour and its variation, 117. Conditions of growth, 269. Conidia of Erysiphei, 62. Mucor, 53. Peziza, 46. Sphæriæ, 192. Coniomycetes, classification of, 69. Coniomycetes, habitats of, 38. Conjugating cells, 165. Conjugation in Peronospora, 171. Peziza, 175. Copulation in Discomycetes, 173. fungi, 163. Corn, mildew, and rust, 224. Cortinarius, species of, 91. Cotton plant diseases, 228. Cultivation of fungi, 253. Sclerotia, 261. truffles, 258. Currant twig fungus, 193. Cystidia, 21.

Dacrymyces, germination of, 140. De Bary, on conditions of study, 183. Decay rapid, 9. Dehiscence of asci, 58. Dimorphism in moulds, 187. of Mucor, 53. Disappearance of species, 268. Discomycetes, 56. Dissemination of spores, 119. Distribution, geographical, 266. Dried fungi, esculent, 87, 94. Drying of fungi, 289. Dry rot, 223. Dualism in Melanconis, 197. Podisoma, 203. Polyactes, 45. Uredines, 185.

Edible fungi in America, 88. Ergotized grass, 217. Erysiphe, conjugation, 176. Erysiphei, polymorphism, 191. Esculent fungi, 82. European floras, 279. Examination of fungi, 289. Exotic floras, 280-5.

False truffles, 98. Fairy-ring champignon, 94. Families and orders, table of, 80. Fenestrate sporidia, 135. Fetid fungi, 116. Fistulina hepatica, 96. Floras of Europe, &c., 279. Fly Agaric, 210. Food, fungi as, 81. Forestry and its foes, 229. Fungi collecting abroad, 292. in disease, 215. mines, 111. of America, 281. Asia, 284. parasitic on animals, 246. each other, 244. true plants, 5.

Garden pests, 230. Gasteromycetes, classification of, 66. Geographical distribution, 266. Germinating pseudospores, 144. Germination of fungi, 137. Mucor, 157, 164. Podisoma, 147. Gonosphere, in Peronospora, 171. Growth of Agarics, 138.

Habitats of fungi, 233. Helicoid spores, 129. Herbarium for fungi, 291. Hints for travellers, 292. Hollyhock disease, 230. House-fly fungus, 219. Hydnum gelatinosum, 24. Hymenium of fungi, 18. Hymenomycetes, classification of, 65. Hyphomycetes, classification of, 73. habitats of, 240. structure of, 42. Hypogæi, structure of, 29.

Influences of fungi, 209. Influence on lower animals, 217. man, 209. Influence on vegetation, 222. of woods, 271. Injurious moulds, 230, 240. Insect, parasites on, 7, 218. fungi, 7, 218, 246. Isaria and Torrubia, 205.

Ketchup, or catchup, 89.

Lactescent fungi, 115. Lichen-gonidia question, 10. Lichens and fungi, 9. Little man's bread, 102. Luminous Agarics, 105. wood, 113.

Meadow mushroom, 83. Medicinal fungi, 102. Melanconiei, structure of, 35. Microscopical mounting, 290. Mildew in corn, 199. Milky fungi, 92. juice, 115. Morels, 99, 159. germination of, 159. Mould cultivation, 263. Moulds, and dimorphism, 187. structure of, 43. to preserve, 290. Mucedines, habitats of, 240. structure of, 44. Mucor, dualism of, 205. growth of, 157. structure of, 50. Mushroom, analysis of, 19. caves of Paris, 255. cultivation, 254. spawn, 256. the edible, 83. Myxogastres, habitats of, 237. structure of, 31.

Nature of fungi, 1. New forms, appearance of, 248. Nidulariacei, structure of, 34.

Oak truffles, 260. Odours of fungi, 116. Oidium and Erysiphe, 191. Oocysts in Erysiphe, 176. Oogonia, 136, 169. of Saprolegniæ, 169. Orders and families, table of, 80. Oyster mushroom, 86.

Paper moulds, 248. Paraphyses and asci, 49. Parasites on plants, 238. Perisporiacei, structure of, 62. Peronospora, growth of, 152. Pests of forest trees, 229. the garden, 230. Peziza, conidia of, 46. Fuckeliana, 48. Pezizæ, their habitats, 242. Phalloidei, structure of, 28. Phenomena of fungi, 105. Phosphorescence, 105. Physomycetes, classification of, 74. habitats of, 241. structure of, 50. Podaxinei, structure of, 29. Podisoma, and its allies, 40, 72. and Roestelia, 203. germination of, 147. Poisonous fungi, 209. Polymorphism, 182. Polymorphy in Erysiphe, 191. Polyporei, structure of, 23. Polyporus, edible species, 96. Potato disease, 225. mould, germination, 155. Preservation of fungi, 288. Pseudospores, 126. Puccinia and Æcidium, 199. Puccinia, germination of, 145. Pucciniæi, structure of, 38. Puff-balls, edible, 98. Puff-balls, structure of, 29. spores, 123. Pycnidia, 62, 180. and spermatia, 62.

Roestelia and Podisoma, 203. Red rust and cattle food, 217. Reproduction, sexual, 163. Rhizomorphæ, 111. Russula, edible species of, 93.

St. George's mushroom, 85. Saprolegnei, conjugation of, 168. Sclerotia, 47, 261. cultivation, 261. Scolecite in Peziza, &c., 173. Septate stylospores, 124. Sexual reproduction, 163. Silkworm disease, 220. Skin diseases and fungi, 212. Slides for the microscope, 290. Spawn of fungi, 256. Special cultivation, 264. Species determinate, 5. Spermatia, 128, 179. of Roestelia, 42. in Tremella, 26. Spermogonia, 178. Sphæria, sporidia of, 133. Sphæriacei, structure of, 61. Sphæriæ, polymorphy, 192. Sphæronemei, structure of, 35. Spiral threads, 32. Spontaneous generation, 3. Sporangia, 51, 129. of Mucor, 51. Spores in chaplets, 143. of Agaricini, 121. Gasteromycetes, 122. truffles, 130. stellate and crested, 36. their dissemination, 119. Sporidia, germination of, 160. of Ascomycetes, 130. Sporidiifera, structure of, 50 Sporifera and Sporidiifera, 64. Star-spored fungus, 125. Structure of fungi, 17. Agaricini, 17. books written upon, 63. of Æcidiacei, 41. Ascomycetes, 55. Cæomacei, 36. Hyphomycetes, 42. Hypogæi, 29. Melanconiei, 35. Mucedines, 44. Mucor, 50. Myxogastres, 31. Nidulariacei, 34. Perisporiacei, 62. Phalloidei, 28. Physomycetes, 50. Podaxinei, 29. Polyporei, 23. Pucciniæi, 38. Sphæriacei, 61. Sphæronemei, 35. Torulacei, 36. Tremellini, 25. Trichogastres, 29. truffles, 55. Ustilaginei, 40. Study of development, 183. Stylospores, 123. Subterranean puff-balls, 29. Summer and winter spores, 37. Supposed animal nature, 2.

Table of classification, 80. Thecaspores, 13 Torrubia and Isaria, 205. Torulacei, structure of, 36. Travellers, hints for, 292. Tremella, germination of, 139. Tremellini, structure of, 24. Trichogastres, habitats of, 237. structure of, 29. Trichospores, 128. Tropical fungi, 272. Truffle cultivation, 258. Truffles, 55, 101, 258. structure of, 55. Tuberacei, structure of, 55. Tubercularia and Nectria, 194.

Uredines, germination of, 143. polymorphy of, 186. structure of, 37. Uses of fungi, 82. Ustilaginei, structure of, 40. germination of, 149.

"Vegetable wasp," 218. Vegetative and reproductive system, 7. Viennese fungi, 84. Vine and hop disease, 227.

White rust germination, 151. Winter and summer spores, 37.

Zones of distribution, 270. Zoospores of Cystopus, 38. white rust, 151. Zygospores of Mucor, 158, 164.

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