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when old. The flesh is brown. Each portion of the 

 cracked patch is an independent fungus, and these troops 

 of crowded individuals often form large patches. The 



Fig. 37. Stereum frustulosum. i, a dense group of 

 individuals growing on a piece of oak wood, rather smaller 

 than nat. size ; 2, section through portion of a fungus, 

 showing five zones or layers ; 3, section through the 

 hymen ium, showing two basidia, each bearing four spores, 

 also three paraphyses rough on the surface with minute 

 particles of oxalate of lime, x 300. 



basidia are club-shaped and bear four spores at the tip. 

 The basidia are accompanied by numerous club-shaped 

 sterile bodies or paraphyses, rough with small particles of 

 oxalate of lime. 



