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FUNGUS-li'LOEA. 



Fig. 1, section of Sparassis cnspa, much reduced : — Pig. 2, Clavaria 

 aMetina, nat. size ; — Kg. 3, spores of same, highly mag. ; — Pig. 4, Clavaria 

 inaegualis, nat. size ; — Pig. 5, Typliula ery&ropus, nat. size ; — Pig. 6, 

 Pistularia tenuipes, nat. size ; — Fig. 7, spores of same, highly mag. ; — 

 Pig. 8, Clavaria pisUllaris, basidium bearing four spores, highly mag. ; — 

 Pig. 9, Pistularia quisquilaris, nat. size. 



SPAEASSIS. Pr. (fig. 1, p. 74.) 



Meshy, iDranoiied, branches flattened, laciniate, -variously 

 contorted and grown together, entirely covered with the 

 hymeninm. 



Sparassis, Tries, Hym. Eur., p. 666 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 330. 



Forming large, irregularly globose, compact tufts, the 

 brittle branches variously fl.attened and contorted, with the 

 tips much cut. 



Sparassis crispa. Pr. (fig. 1, p. 74.) 

 Fragile; very much branched, branches very irregular, 



