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withdrawn from the stump by the vegetating hyphae of the 

 myceHum. By actual count, there are about 1,250 fruit-bodies 

 included within the photograph ; but the fruit-bodies extended in 

 a ring all around the stump. It therefore seems well within the 

 mark to estimate their total number at between 2,000 and 3,000. 



Fig. 19. — Psathyrella disseminata. Fruit-bodies coming up from mycelium which 

 lias grown through stony soil from the base of the inverted tree-stump shown 

 in Fig. 18. Photographed in situ at Birmingham, England. Natural size. 



Of especial interest is the fact that the fruit-bodies shown in 

 Fig. 18 came up, not directly upon the stump but upon the bare 

 soil around it. Most of the fruit-bodies were separated from the 

 actual substance of the stump by a distance of several inches, and 

 some of them by as much as a foot. Upon the soil adjacent to 

 another similar stump, some of the fruit-bodies were found growing 

 at a distance of not less than two feet from the stump's nearest point. 



