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POLYPORUS POCULA (Fig. 777). PHOTOGRAPH BY
BURTT LEEPER, OHIO. We have considered this plant twice
(Myc. Notes, Pol. Issue, page 44, and Syn. Stip. Polyp., page 140).
Polyporus Pocula. Photograph by Burtt Leeper.
The illustrations we have used were made from small specimens, but
about the usual size. We present (Fig. 777) a fine photograph sent
us by Burtt Leeper of an unusually large specimen. It is very rarely,
we believe, that the plant reaches this size. The photograph, like all
that Mr. Leeper makes, is exceptionally fine.
HYDNANGIUM RAVENELII (Fig. 778), FROM DR. R. P.
BURKE, ALABAMA. Hypogeal fungi, as the name indicates, grow
beneath the surface of the ground.
There are two general classes,
Tuberaceae, with spores in asci,
and Hymenogasters, with spores
borne on basidia. The Hymenogasters
are closely allied to "puff
balls," but the cells remain permanently
in the ripe specimen,
and do not deliquesce into a
powdery mass as do puff balls.
As most Hymenogasters are hypogeal, and only found by laborious
search, they are scarcely known in this country. Harkness is the
only one who has hunted much for them. In Europe they are better
known, for two of the best students, Vittadini and Tulasne, searched
diligently for Fig. 778.
them, and wrote most magnificent works concerning
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