IT) April ino.Vl 



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Explaining similarly the basis of classification and arrangement of the 

 other plants, we would have the Mosses and Liverworts forming the group 

 Bry'-ii-t'liytcs : the herns. Scouring Rushes and Ground Pines forming the 

 Ptcr-id' -o-pliytcs ; and linally the Pines and common higher plants as 

 Sage. Rose, C3ak, Dandelion, etc., forming the Sf^cr-mat'-o-phytcs. Putting 

 this all in the form of a diagram or synoptical tabulation we would have 

 it presented to the eye thus : 



I-iG. 103. Po-i.y'-po-kus iivn-NOi'-DES. A Polyporc from ("ciitral America, very 

 strikiiii; by reason of its black color and covering of long bristles or .scale-like hairs 

 :ibov(.-. Mr. underside' is shown in the lower specimen on the right, and a small por- 

 tion of tliis magnified is >liovvn in I'tc. 10:;. The plants were collected the past winter 

 from old r.iilnir.d ties, near I'ort I'.arrios, C.iiatcmala. 



