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The photograph reproduced in Fig. 128, so far as I know, is 

 the first ever published which exhibits hymenial structure. 1 I shall 



FIG. 128. Anellaria separata. Photograph of part of a dark area of the hymenium 

 of a living gill mounted in water. The plane of focus passes through the black 

 spores of the present -gene ration basidia. Magnification, 640. 



not hesitate, therefore, to give the details of the method by which 



it was made. A fruit-body was grown in the laboratory and from it, 



on the first day of spore-discharge, a gill was dissected carefully 



1 Except Fig. 107, p. 316, and Fig. 109, p. 319. 



