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These observations, if they do not tend to support my view of 
the ascoid nature of the spores of Phragmidium, at least 
show that each individual jomt of the spore has a separate 
vitality, and is physiologically an independent embryo. 
Fig. 6 shows a peculiar (perhaps imperfect) mode of ger- 
mination in Phragmidium bulbosum, which is almost exactly 
similar to that noticed in vol. v, as having occurred in 
Triphragmium Ulmarie. In this instance, however, the ter- 
minal cell, instead of being oblong and rectangular, has 
assumed an ovoid form, and the last cell but one has thrown 
out a secondary filament, upon which, however, no vesicle is 
seen. 
Mucor fusiger, Lk.—This mould is parasitic upon the gills 
of Agarics, and is easily recognised by its large dark-brown 
or greenish-brown, almond-shaped spores, which are repre- 
sented in fig. 7. These spores are accompanied by a mass of 
minute granules, endowed with movements considerably more 
active than ordinary molecular motion. I did not observe 
any ciliary appendages which would account for this motile 
power ; indeed, if any such existed, they would probably not 
be visible without a considerably higher power than I am in 
the habit of using. It is not impossible that these granules 
may be of the same nature as the spermatozoa observed in 
Vaucheria and other fresh-water alge, but without further 
observation this can only be suggested as a speculation, and 
as a point deserving of further inquiry. Mr. Berkeley has 
noticed similar motions in Endodromia. (See Hooker’s 
‘Journal,’ vol. in, p. 78.) 
Patellaria clavispora, B. and Br., ‘ Annals of Nat. Hist.,’ 
1854.—I have met with a Patellaria, growing near Tunbridge 
Wells on a dead oak branch, which is, I think, identical with 
the above plant, although differing slightly in the colour of 
the hymenium and in the length of the sporidia. No figure 
of the fructification of P. clavispora is given by Messrs. 
Berkeley and Broome, and the nature of it is sufficiently pe- 
culiar to merit illustration. The peculiarity consists in the 
fact of the same hymenium producing sporidia contained in 
asci, and also another kind of fruit which would come under 
the denomination of stylospores or conidia. It is now well 
known that such an occurrence is by no means uncommon in 
fungi, and the existence of the double fruit in this case did 
not escape the observation of Messrs. Berkeley and Broome. 
Figures, however, convey much more definite ideas than 
verbal description, and I have therefore thought it worth 
