IN your review of Dr. Pringsheim's “Jahrbücher” (NATURE, vol. xiii. p. 156) you refer to Dr. Max Reess' paper on the Fertilisation of the Basidiomycetes; this paper you compare with the ...

Typical mushrooms, basidiomycetes, can’t live in standing water, there isn’t enough oxygen. Ascomycetes however can breathe — metabolise glucose — in low oxygen conditions and so thrive in ...