DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate I. 



Fig. 1. — a, MorcheUa esculenta, nat. size ; b, a section of the same ; 

 c, an ascus and paraphyses; 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 ; d, 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 rujipes, nat. size ; Z>, a section of the same ; c, an 

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

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



Plate II. 



Fig. 5. — a, Leotia circinans, nat. size ; b t section of the same ; c, an 

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



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

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



Fig. 7. — a, Spathidaria 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, LeptogJossum 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 hirsutam, nat. size ; b, an ascus with two 

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

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



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

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

 c and d x 400 times. 



