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FjG. 23. Adhesion of two roots of carrot. ' Gard. Chron.,' 1851, p. 67. 



A not uncommon malformation in mushrooms arises 

 from the confluence of their stalks (fig. 24), and when 

 the union takes place by means of the pilei, it sometimes 

 happens, during growth, that the one fungus is detached 

 from its attachment to the ground, and is borne up 

 with the other, sometimes, even, being found in an in- 

 verted position on the top of its fellow.^ 



The garden operations of budding, grafting and 

 inarching have already been alluded to as furnishing 

 illustrations of adhesion, but it may be well to refer 

 briefly to certain other interesting examples of adhesion 



' 'Ann. Nat. Hist,' scr. 2, vol. ix. tab. xvi. ' Phytologist,' 1857. 

 p. 352, &c. 



