132 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



then wash well with water, and soak thoroughly in the white of 

 egg : coagulate it, and harden in alcohol. Sections are then to 

 be cut of the whole mass, together with the bodies embedded, 

 and they are to be mounted and examined in the usual way. 



Attempts should also be made to cultivate the mature spores in a 

 very weak decoction of French plums as above directed for the 

 conidia. 



