DESCBIPTION OF PLATES. 



PLATE I. 



Fig. 1. a, Morchella escuknta, nat. size ; b, a section of the same ; 

 c, an ascus and paraphvses; d, sporidia. c and d x 400 times. 



Fig. 2. a, Gyromitra esculenta, nat. size ; b, section of the same ; 

 c, an ascus and a paraphysis ; c/, a sporidium. c and d x 400 times. 



Fig. 3. a, Helvella, lacunosa, nat. size ; b, a section of the same ; 

 c, an ascus with two paraphyses ; d, three sporidia. c and d x 400 

 times. 



Fig. 4. a, Verpa rufipes, nat. size; b, a section of the suue ; c, an 

 ascus and a paraphysis ; d, sporidia ; , cellular filament from the 

 epidermis, c, d, and e X 400 times. 



PLATE TI. 



Fiir. 5. a, Leotia circinans, nat. size ; 5, section of the same ; c, an 

 ascus with three paraphyses ; d, two sporidia. c and d x 400 times. 



. Fig. 6. a, Mitrula paludosa, nat. size ; b, section of the upper part ; 

 c, an ascus ; d, three sporidia. c and d x 400 times. 



Fig. 7. a, Spatliularia flavida, nat. size; b, section of the same; 

 c, an ascus with three paraphyses ; d, two filiform sporidia. c and d 

 X 400 times. 



Fig. 8. a, Leptoglossum viride, nat. size ; b, section of the same ; 

 c, an ascus with two paraphyses ; d, sporidia. c and d x 400 times. 



Fig. 9. a, Geoglossum hirsutum, nat. size ; b, an ascus with two 

 hooked paraphyses ; c, a sporidium ; d, one of the black rigid hairs 

 from the hymenium intermixed with the asci. b, c, andrf x 400 times. 



Fig. 10. a, Rliizina undulata, nat. size; b, a section of the same, 

 showing the root-like fibrillas ; c, an ascus; d, the fusiform sporidia. 

 c and d x 400 times. 



