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and moisture and the salts of the earth into tissue 

 by means of the pleasant-hued chlorophyll, these sylvan 

 ghosts subsist upon the sap of roots or the tissues of de- 



THE DEADLY AMAXITA. 



caying wood. Emancipated from the normal life of the 

 higher plants, even flowers have been denied them and 

 their fruit is but a cloud of brown dust, each mote a 

 simple cell. 



