Introduction to the study of fungi : their organography, classification, and distribution for the use of collectors . nated a scolecite - (Fig. 71). He also seems to haveconvinced himself that there always exists in proximity to thisbody certain filaments, the short arched or inflexed branchesof which, like so many antheridia, rest their anterior extremitieson the uniform cells. This contact seems to communicate tothe vermiform body a special vital energy, which is immedi-ately directed towards the production of a somewhat filamentoustissue, on which the hymenium, or disc, is at a later period
Introduction to the study of fungi : their organography, classification, and distribution for the use of collectors . nated a scolecite - (Fig. 71). He also seems to haveconvinced himself that there always exists in proximity to thisbody certain filaments, the short arched or inflexed branchesof which, like so many antheridia, rest their anterior extremitieson the uniform cells. This contact seems to communicate tothe vermiform body a special vital energy, which is immedi-ately directed towards the production of a somewhat filamentoustissue, on which the hymenium, or disc, is at a later perioddeveloped. Tulasne ^ observes that this scolecite can be readilyisolated in Ascobolus furfuraceus. When the young receptaclesare still spherical and white, and have not attained more thanone-twentieth of a millimetre in diameter, it is sufficient tocompress them slightly in order to rupture them at the summitand expel the scolecite. This occupies the centre of the ^ De Bary, Beitr. zur Morph. der Pilzc, 186G. 2 See Fig. 26. 3 Tulasiie, Ann. dcs Sci. Nat., Oct. 1866, p. 211. 176 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FUNGI. little sphere, and is formed of from six to eight cells curved inthe form of a comma. In Pijroncma mdaloma Tulasne states that the scolecitein this species is most certainly a lateral 1 )ranch of the mycelium. This branch is isolated,simple, or forked at ashort distance from itsbase, and in diametergenerally exceeding thatof the filament whichbears it. This branchis soon arched or bent,and often elongated indescribing a spiral, theirregular turns of whichare lax or the same time itsinterior, at first con-tinuous, becomes dividedby transverse septa intoeight or ten or more cells. Sometimes this special branchterminates in a crozier shape, which is involved in the bentpart of another crozier which terminates in a neighbouringfilament. In other cases the growing branch is connected byits extremity with that of a hooked branch. Of these con-tacts Tulasne was
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