, and
could never detect anything of the kind. It is probable that
the asci belonged to some species of _Hypomyces_, a genus of
parasitic Sphaeriaceous fungi.

[L] It is not intended that the spores are always quaternate in
_Agaricini_, though that number is constant in the more typical
species. They sometimes exceed four, and are sometimes reduced
to one.

[M] The species long known as _Hydnum gelatinosum_ was examined by
Mr. F. Currey in 1860 (_Journ. Linn. Soc._), and he came to the
conclusion that it was not a good _Hydnum_. Since then it has
been made the type of a new genus (Hydnogloea B. and Br.
or, as called by Fries, in the new edition of "Epicrisis,"
_Tremellodon_, Pers. Myc. Eur.), and transferred to the
_Tremellini_. Currey says, upon examining the fructification,
he was surprised to find that, although in its external
characters it was a perfect _Hydnum_, it bore the fruit of a
_Tremella_. If one of the teeth be examined with the
microscope, it will be seen to consist of threads bearing
four-lobed sporophores, and spores exactly similar to
_Tremella_. It will thus be seen, he adds, that the plant
is exactly intermediate between _Hydnei_ and _Tremellini_,
forming, as it were, a stepping-stone from one to the other.

[N] Tulasne, L. R. and C., "Observations on the Organization of the
Tremellini," in "Ann. des Sci. Nat." 3^me ser. xix. (1853), pp.
193, &c.

[O] M. Leveille, in "Ann. des Sci. Nat." 2^me ser. viii. p. 328; 3^me
ser. ix. p. 127; also Bonorden, "Handbuch der Mycologie," p.
151.

[P] Tulasne, in "Ann. des Sci. Nat." (loc. cit.) xix. pl. x. fig. 29.
Tulasne, "New Notes upon Tremellinous Fungi," in "Journ. Linn.
Soc." vol. xiii. (1871), p. 31.

[Q] Berkeley, M. J., "On the Fructification of Lycoperdon, Phallus,
&c.," in "Ann. Nat. Hist." 1840, vol. iv. p. 158, pl. 5.
Berkeley, M. J., "Introduction Crypt. Bot." p. 346.

[R] Tulasne, L. R. and C., "Fungi Hypogaei." Paris. Berkeley and
Broome, "British Hypogaeous Fungi," in "Ann. Nat. Hist." 1846,
xviii. p. 74. Corda, "Icones Fungorum," vol. vi. pl. vii.
viii.

[S] Tulasne, "Sur le Genre _Secotium_," in "Ann. des Sci. Nat."
(1845), 3^me ser. vol. iv. p. 169, plate 9.

[T] Tulasne, L. R. and C.,