Lloyd Mycological Writings V3.pdf - MykoWeb

should have any trouble in determining these plants in America.
One serious mistake only occurs in this section. The photograph
used to illustrate Nidnlaria pisiformis has also (the lower plant) a
photograph of Nidula Candida, which should have been cut off as it
has no resemblance to Nidularia pisiformis. We might go through
the work and pick out other mistakes, but there is to much that is
good in the work it would be in poor taste to harp on the little that
is bad.
We congratulate professor Hard on his book, and American mycology
in having such a work. Every man interested in fungi should
have a copy, whether he lives in America or Europe.
HOW SPHAEROBOLUS THROWS ITS
PERIDIOLE.
At the time I wrote my account of Sphaerobolus stellatus I had
never closely observed the fresh plant. There has always been a
tradition that the plant ejects its peridiole with force. There is no
Fig 245 (X6).
Sphaerobolus stellatus at an early stage.
trouble in tracing this tradition back two hundred years to Micheli,
who pictures a plant ejecting its peridiole like a cannon ball from a
mortar. As it is evident that some of our modern pictures have been
made up from Micheli, I suspected that the idea was derived from this
source. I am glad to be able to say, however, that the essentials
are true.
Sphaerobolus stellatus (which, in my opinion, is the only species