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spherical -uniformity along with this slight divergence from 

 uniformity of conditions. 



Vegetal aggregates of the second order are usually fixed: 

 locomotion is exceptional. Fixity implies that the surface 

 of attachment is differently circumstanced from the free sur 

 face. Hence we may expect to find, as we do find, that 

 among these rooted aggregates of the second order, as among 

 those of the first order, the primary contrast of shape is 

 between the adherent part and the loose part. Sea-weeds 

 variously exemplify this. In some the fronds are very 

 irregular and in some tolerably regular; in some the form is 

 pseudo-foliar and in some pseud-axial; but differing though 

 they do in these respects, they agree in having the end 

 which is attached to a solid body unlike the other end. The 

 same truth is seen in such secondary aggregates as the com 

 mon Agarics, or rather in their immensely-developed organs 

 of fructification. A puff-ball, Fig. 192, presents no other 

 obvious unlikeness of parts than that between its under and 

 upper surfaces. So too with the stalked kinds that frequent 

 our woods and pastures. In the types which Figs. 193, 

 194, 195, delineate, the unlikenesses between the rooted 

 ends and the expanded ends, as well as between the under 

 and upper surfaces of the expanded ends, are obviously 

 related to this fundamental contrast of conditions. Nor is 

 this relation less clearly displayed in the sessile fungi which 

 grow out from the sides of trees, as shown at a, 6, Fig. 196. 



That which is common to this and the preceding types, is the 

 contrast between the attached end and the free end. 



