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with the microscope revealed the fact that basidia and paraphyses 

 are developed in the hymenium in the usual numbers (Fig. 22, 



FIG. 20. Two normal fruit-bodies of Coprimis lagopus \ 

 ( = C.fimetarius) grown on horse dung in the laboratory. 

 In both, the pilei were grey owing to the presence of 

 the black spores upon the gills. The left-hand one, 

 which is beginning to expand, has not yet begun to 

 shed spores. The right-hand one has already shed 

 a great many spores, some of which have settled on 

 the middle part of the stipe. Natural size. 



A and B). The basidia are dimorphic, the long ones and the short 

 ones being distributed in the normal manner (Fig. 22, B and C). 



