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an English dress,* hence it will be unnecessary to repeat those 

 which are modifications only of the views already stated, our 

 own conclusions being capable of a very brief summary : that 

 lichens and fungi are closely related the one to the other, but 

 that they are not identical ; that the " gonidia " of lichens 

 are part of the lichen- organization, and consequently are not 

 algae, -or any introduced bodies ; that there is no parasitism ; 

 and that the lichen thallus, exclusive of gonidia, is wholly 

 unknown amongst fungi. 



The Rev. J. M. Crombie has therefore our sympathies in the 

 remark with which his summary of the gonidia controversy 

 closes, in which he characterizes it as a " sensational romance of 

 lichenology," of the " unnatural union between a captive algal 

 damsel and a tyrant fungal master." 



* W. Archer, in "Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci." vol. xiii. p. 217; vol. xiv. 

 p. 115. Translation of Schwendener's "Nature of the Gonidia of Lichens," in 

 same journal, vol. xiii. p. 235. 



