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KNOWLEDGE. 



October, 1913. 



Figure 415. 

 An Archegonium of a fern. 



Figure 416. 

 A Prothallium of a fern. 



Figure 417. 

 An Antheridimn of a fern. 



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Figure 418. The Sparassis (Sparassis crispa). 



A fungus (one-half natural size) covered with twisted, thin, brittle lobes of a creamy white tint, found only in pine-woods, and 

 considered to be one of the most desirable of the esculent species. 



(From "Hutchinson's Popular Botany," by the courtesy of Messrs. Hutchinson & Co.) 



