CHAEACE^! PUNai. 



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2. CHAEACE.E (Charas). 



These are a kind of fresh- water 

 Algae, composed of tubes of 

 cellular tissue ; they are pecu- 

 liar, from the fact that the 

 spores of the plant have cilia, 

 giving to them the powers of 

 motion and enabling them to 

 swim away and spread the plant 

 afar off. It is in the Charas 

 that the peculiar circulation of 

 the granules of " endochrome " 

 called " cyclosis " is best seen. 



Charas. 



3. FUNQI (Fungals), including Mushrooms, &c. 



The Fungi comprise a great variety of vegetable growths, 

 from the mould which arrows on anv animal or veee- 



or vege- 



Eatable Mushroom (Agaricus campestris). 



table substance, to the mushroom. Some of the moulds 

 or mildews found on various decaying substances are 



