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FIGURES ILLUSTEATING THE HYMENOGASTBEAE. 



Fig. 1, Octaviania asterosperma, portion of a tramal plate showing the 

 hyphae of the trama bending outwards and bearing the basidia on both 

 surfaces ; the young spores are smooth ; highly mag. ; — Fig. 2, Hydnangium 

 carneum, spore very highly mag. ; — Fig. 3, BMzopngon ruhescens, plant 

 nat. size ; — Fig. 4, Hysterangium nephriticam, spores higlily mag. ; — Fig. 5, 

 Hymenogaster tener, section through centre of plant, showing the con- 

 tinuous peridium -with the thickened sterile base, also the tramal plates 

 forming an irregular network in the gleba ; nat. size; — Fig. 6, Melanogaster 

 variegatus, basidium bearing four spores ; highly mag. ; — Fig. 7, Hymeno- 

 gaster decorus, spore ; highly mag. ; — Fig. 8, Hymenogaster citrinus, plant ; 

 nat. size. 



