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Agaricineae, fails to be discharged. These waste spores are gradually 

 overtaken by the upward-rising liquid film containing the products 



Fig. 121. — Goprinus atramentarius. Fruit-bodies coining up on soil 

 in a garden, shedding spores and undergoing autodigestion. 

 Drops of a dark fluid hang from the exhausted rim of the 

 pileus. Photographed at Swansea, Wales, by H. R. Wakefield. 

 A little less than natural size. 



of autodigestion, with the result that they accumulate at the gill- 

 edges in large numbers (Figs. 120, e, and 122, g, pp. 281 and 287). So 

 numerous are they that, along the extreme edge of each gill, they 

 form a thin black line which can be seen with the naked eye. Two 



