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Abstract: Probably the majority of discoveries in biology and medicine have been arrived at unexpectedly or at least had an element of chance to them, especially the most important and revolutionary ones. Pasteur, however, is quoted to have said that "In the field of observation chance favours only the prepared mind". The work which is herein reported had a notable element of chance about it. However, my mind was prepared to make the best use of it by the knowledge of some of the hypotheses put forward by Eger, and Blondeau regarding fruit body initiation. The fortuitous appearance of a phenomenon hitherto—to my knowledge—unrecorded in mushroom literature and its spontaneous reappearance about ten weeks later led to the discovery of three species of actinomycetes of the order Actinomycetales of the family Streptomycetaceae and the genus Streptomyces which either singly or together contributed to the initiation of sporophores.
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