10 VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY 
the refuse of tanyards and is known as ‘flowers of tan.’ 
These fungi pass the greater part of their life without 
possessing any cell-walls, only forming them indeed in con- 
nection with their processes of reproduction. 
Fie. 11—Vonvox Guoparor. (After Kny.) x 120. 
A, section of a portion of the wall of the sphere. x 1000. 
A third mode of arrangement of a colony of proto- 
plasts is found in the so-called Cenocytes (fig. 12). In one 
of these plants, which are represented by several very 
important seaweeds and by a large number of fungi, we 
