16 FUNGI. 
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 
alge, or any introduced bodies; that there is no parasitism ; 
aud 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. 2173 vol. xiv. 
p. 115. Translation of Schwendener’s ‘‘ Nature of the Gonidia of Lichens,” in 
same journal, vol. xiii. p. 235, * 
