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right up to the tree-trunk, proved to be a buttress-root. Never- 

 theless, it was quite dead and rotted to a considerable extent. 

 Neighbouring buttress-roots were quite sound. The top of the 



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Fig. 190. — Collybia fusipes. To the right, a cluster of young fruit- 

 bodies springing from a massive compound pseudorliiza wliieli was 

 attached to the top of a large buttress-root of a Beech in Queen's 

 Cottage Grounds, Kew. To the left (somewhat dried) two fruit- 

 bodies attached to a long thin root-like pseudorliiza. Natural size. 



root to which the persistent pseudorhizal strand was attached was 

 buried 4 inches below the surface of the leaf-mould. The persistent 

 pseudorhizal strand much resembled the one already described, for 

 it was obconic in form, 3 inches high, 2 inches mde above, and 

 attached to the root by a slender base. Upon its broad top there 



