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Fig. 7 the infant fungus resembles a Puff-ball, to which it indeed 

 bears a certain natural relationship. The whole plant in infancy 



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Fig. 6. — Coprinus radiatus, Fr. 



Enlarged 500 diam., as grown from the spores, in expressed juice of horse-dung, 



under a covering glass of microscope. 



is enveloped in a wrapper of cells, the fructification being entirely 

 concealed within. In the lower figure on Fig. 6 may be seen two 

 spermatozoids which have burst, and K K K shows the cells of straw. 



