LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 



PAO 



Coprinus comatus, Fr. (old) i 



Coprinus comatus, Fr. (mature) . . . . . . v 



Coprinus comatus, Fr. (young) viii 



Puffball 4, 25 



Corollas and honey, attractive to insects .... 5 



Ingenious stamens 5 



Pistil of violet 6 



Seed-box of iris 6 



Pistil of St. Johns wort ....... 6 



Seed-box of sacred bean ....... 6 



Winged seed of the silver fir 6 



Fern with spores (Polypodium vulgare) .... 6 



Grass spikelet 7 



Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) ..... 7 

 Bean seed to show embryo ...... 7 



Indian pipe .7 



Moss (Dicranum scoparium) (natural size) ... 8 

 White mould on dead fly ....... 8 



Spores borne in delicate membranous sacs . . . . 9, 17 



Bread mould 9 



Spores borne on little spicules . . . . . $ 17 



Spores as simple cells . . . , . . .11 

 Spores divided into several cells . . . ... 1 1 



Mycelial threads . . . . . . . . n 



Mushroom buttons . . . . . . n 

 Young mushroom . ....... n 



Puffball .... v .... If 



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