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Fig. 25. — Schizophyllum commune, a xerophyte. A and B, fruit-bodies seen 

 from above growing on wood, natural size. C and D, two fruit-bodies seen from 

 below and in section; about twice magnified; £, section through pileus in wet weather 

 showing gills split down their median planes; F, section of a dry pileus; E and F 

 about 12 times natural size, (after Buller, Researches on Fungi, 1909: 114.) 



