ANATOMY OF FUNGI 



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system which remains as a skeleton, after all the other 

 parts of the fungus have decayed or been removed by 

 beetles, mites, etc. 



3. Conducting System. Plastic substances, as latex and 



FIG. 7. Laticiferous hyphae mixed with vesicular hyphae 

 in gill of Russula rubra. Highly mag. 



oil that are used up during the fruiting period, are con- 

 tained in inflated cells or more frequently in differentiated 

 laticiferous hyphae. 



These specialised conducting tubes originate as lateral 

 outgrowths from ordinary hyphae, are at first multinucleate 

 and transeversely septate, although the septa eventually 



