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recognizable by their brighter colour, since there is no admixture 

 of the paler spores to deaden the colour of the spermatia. Tulasne 

 was unable to cause these bodies to germinate, and therefore 

 assigns them other functions. A curious fact was observed in the 

 spores, certain of them produced a small conical tube on one of 

 their sides, and upon the tip of this a globose secondary spore 

 was formed, -while others produced the ordinary germinating 

 threads of other fungi. The globose, secondary, spoies could not 

 themselves be caused to germinate. The genus Dacrymycea 

 presents a very similar structure to that of Tremella. D. 

 Deliquescens consists of a system of delicate, branched, filaments 

 immersed in colourless gelatine. At the outer surface the threads 

 support cylindrical, or club-shaped cells, obtuse at their ends, often 

 grouped three together on one base, and filled with plastic matter, 

 giving colour to the whole plant ; each of these cells becomes 

 forked at top, and is produced into two, gradually attenuated, con- 

 tinuous, branches, at the summit of which a spore is produced. 

 In this case the spores become septate, and from each of the cells 

 thus formed arises one, or more, short processes on which a 

 secondary globose spore is developed, as in Tremella. Those 

 spores, which produce the secondary spores, have not been seen to 

 germinate, whilst the other spores were observed germinating in 

 abundance. M. Tulasne argues from this that aU the spores, 

 though identical to our eyes, have not the same function ; he also 

 thinks that generally, if not constantly, these two forms are pro- 

 duced on distinct plants. He describes a state of D. Deliquescens 

 where the cells forming generally the bases of the fructiferous cells, 

 are transformed into oblong, separable bodies of a reddish colour, 

 and various lengths, which he regards as a gemmiparous state of the 

 plant. The cells ordinarily colourless, and void of solid contents, 

 become filled with coloured protoplasm, grow thicker, and 

 eventually divide themselves into an infinity of frustules, straight, 

 curved, or irregular in form. These fnistules have been seen to 

 germinate, showing it to be a scissiparous growth. A similar fact 

 occurs in D. Sebaceus and others. A like structure is found in 

 Exidia, where the bymeuium only occupies the upper surface of 

 the fungus, which has the form and habit of Peziza. 



