16 FUNGI. 



an English dress,* hence it will be unnecessary to repeat those 

 which are modifications only of the views already stated, our 

 own conclusions being capable of a very brief summary : that 

 lichens and fungi are closely related the one to the other, but 

 that they are not identical ; that the " gonidia " of lichens 

 are part of the lichen- organization, and consequently are not 

 alga), or any introduced bodies ; that there is no parasitism ; 

 and that the lichen thallus, exclusive of gonidia, is wholly 

 unknown amongst fungi. 



The Rev. J. M. Crombie has therefore our sympathies in the 

 remark with which his summary 1 of the gonidia controversy 

 closes, in which he characterizes it as a " sensational romance of 

 lichenology," of the " unnatural union between a captive algal 

 damsel and a tyrant fun gat master." 



* W. Archer, in "Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci." vol. xiii. p. 217; vol. xiv. 

 p. 115. Translation of Schwendener's "Nature of the Gonidia of Lichens," in 

 same journal, vol. xiii. p. 235. 



