144 ON THE FRUCTIFICATION OF CHIONYPHE CARTERI. 
grown so vigorously with my kind friend Mr. Berkeley (from the 
dry rice-paste including its spores that I brought home from 
India) as in its native country, and therefore offer you (for the 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
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Society) tracings of my drawings of it as it appears under more 
favourable circumstances, and thus better developed.’ 
EXPLANATION OF WOODCUT. 
Fig. 1. A combination of the elementary parts of Mycetoma, on the scale ‚of 
41 5th to 4.15, th of an inch, showing—a, filaments ; bbb, large cells grow- 
ing on the ends of the filaments (abortive sporangia?); c, shade, 
showing flakes of concretionary brown matter, originally derived from 
the bursting of the abortive sporangia (?), which, in aggregation, thus 
gives the dark “ vandyke-brown " colour to the general mass of 
Mycetoma. The natural tint, when minute portions are torn to pieces 
for microscopical examination, is light brown. See my descriptions of 
all this in the * Annals,’ Joc. cit. The drawing was made from por- 
tions of Mycetoma taken from a foot only half an hour after it was 
amputated. 
Fig. 2 represents one of the large cells, or abortive sporangia, acted upon by 
a solution of iodine in iodide of potassium, under which its contents 
indicate, by their tint, a strong admixture of starch. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 
Fig. 1. A combination of the elementary parts of Chionyphe Carteri. Some 0 
the filaments are red; others present only the yellow or opalescent 
tints of the oleaginous or albuminous globules which they contain. 
The same is the case with the sporangia and the sporidia as to colour. 
The cell-wall of the sporangia presents a wavy appearance, probably 
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