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spermatia with or without special functions and an antheridial branch which 

 conjugates with the archicarp. But the ' Sordaria ' in which the antheridial branch 

 has been observed is Sordaria or Hypocopra fimicola described by Gilkinet, and 

 spermatia are not said to have been found in it. The Sordarieae in which the 

 spermatia in question have been found are different species, S. curvula, S. minuta, and 

 others 1 , and it has not been shown that their young sporocarp is like that of 

 S. fimicola. On the contrary, it has been already intimated on page 235 that there 

 appear to be important differences in the matter of the inception of the sporocarp 

 in the group of the Sordarieae. Brefeld's objection therefore rests on a misconception, 

 and is at present at least not justified ; and if it is removed, it is no longer necessary 

 to consider at length the question of the connection between these cases and those 

 discussed above in which the spermatia were supposed to be without sexual 

 function. 



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1 Zopf, Chaetomium, p. 237. 



