“…External meiospore production by basidia involves many processes, e.g., tip growth of the sterigmata, elaborate wall development, and nuclear migration. There have been a number of studies on basidiospore development in the Agaricales (Perreau-Bertrand, 1967;Hugueney, 1972Hugueney, , 1975bRogers, 1972;Mc-Laughlin, 1973;Nakai and Ushiyama, 1974;Olah and Reisinger, 1974) and in the Aphyllophorales (Wells, 1965;Sundberg, 1971;Hoch and Setliff, 1976), which have dealt primarily with changes in the basidiospore wall. Wall layer terminology is confusing and complex (Perreau-Bertrand, 1967;Kuhner, 1973;Clemencon, 1975) and the results of different authors are difficult to correlate.…”