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CLASS L 



Cell-plants Fungi. 



Here belong those plants which consist simply of cellular 

 tissue, having no sap-tubes and tracheae. Such plants, 

 too, possess no regular or hexagonal cellular tissue. 



1529. The cellular tissue, in which there is only a 

 single active process, cannot essentially alter its primary 

 form. It is therefore an accumulation of round or cylin- 

 drical mucus-vesicles. 



1530. Mucus- vesicles, in which the air-process is not 

 as yet active, cannot be coloured green ; but must have 

 the colour of the earth. 



1531. Plants, composed of amorphous and earth- 

 coloured cellular tissue, are Fungi. The fungi are simply 

 clusters of mucus-vesicles joined together in a more or I 

 less regular manner, their union being effected in dark, / 

 hollow and wet situations. / 



1532. They may therefore originate wherever mucous 

 juices are evolved by the potential agency of a higher 

 organization, and thus by putrefection. The fungi origi- 

 nate by (Equivocal generation. They are the anal-organ- 

 izations of the higher plants and animals ; the corrupted 

 and luxuriating juices. 



1533. Nevertheless the fungus is propagated by 

 division of its vesicles, which again, in accordance with 

 their peculiar laws of polarity, attract mucus-vesicles, 

 and thus obtain the form of the earlier or parent fungus 

 This is only a more regulated kind of (Equivocal gene- 

 ration. 



1534. The origin of the fungi may therefore happen 

 in a twofold manner, namely, by formation from other 

 juices, and by that of their own, which is called pro- 

 pagation. Still at bottom both are one in kind. 



1535. Their granules or vesicles are seeds, properly I 

 sporules, which are self-developed without male polar- V 

 ization. 



DIVISION. 



1536. The fungi pass moreover through stages of 



