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PLANT STLFDIKS 



These spores, ealled />iisii/i(is//iii-i's, shower down from tlie 

 gills when ripe, germinate, :uid i:)ro(Iuee new myceiia. The 

 peenliar cell called the basidium gives name to the group 

 liasidi(.)mycetes. 



101. Other forms. — Mushrooms tli.splay a great variety of 

 form and coloration, many of them being very attractive 



t hliiiU> of m-ass 



(Figs. '357, '.'58, 25'J). The " ]i(n-e-fungi " have pore-like de- 

 pressions for their s])ores, instead of gills, as in the very 

 common "bracket-fungus" {/'oli/ponis), which tonus hai'd 

 shell-like outgrowths on tree-trunks and stumps (Figs. 200, 



