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concerned, I showed in Volume I that in Coprinus comatus : (1) the 

 gills are not parallel-sided but subparallel-sided and flanged, (2) that 

 cystidia are absent from the faces of the gills, and (3) that the 



Fig. 57. — Coprinus comatus. A group of fruit-bodies just before 

 expansion. Photographed at Queen's Cottage Grounds, 

 Kew Gardens, by Miss E. 

 Natural size. 



M. Wakefield and the author. 



interlamellar spaces, which are required to render possible the free 

 development of the spores on the hymenium, are secured by the 

 flange arrangement ; ^ but, unfortunately, like my predecessors, 

 Brefeld, Massee, Patouillard, Boudier, etc., I overlooked the fact 



1 These Researches, vol. i, 1909, pp. 196-215. 



