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spore, and its free and pointed extremity finally dilated into 
a sac, at first globose and empty. This afterwards admits 
into its cavity the plastic matter contained in its support, 
and, increasing, takes exactly the form of a new spore, 
without, however, quite equalling in size the primary or 
mother spore. The spore of the new formation long retains its 
pedicel, and the mother spore which produced it, but these 
latter organs are then entirely empty and extremely transparent. 
Sometimes two secondary spores are thus engendered from the 
same spore, and their pedicels may be implanted on the same or 
on different sides, so as to be parallel in the former case, and 
growing in opposite directions in the latter. The fate of these 
secondary spores was not determined. 
In Dacrymyces deliquescens are found mingled amongst the 
spores immense numbers of small round or ovoid unilocular 
bodies, without appendages of any kind, which long puzzled 
mycologists. Tulasne ascertained that they are derived from 
the spores of this fungus when they have become free, and rest 
00 Pp on the surface of the hymenium. Each of 
LIGUD the cells of the spore emits exteriorly one 
or several of these corpuscles, supported on 
very short slender pedicels, which remain 
after the corpuscles are detached from 
them. This latter circumstance evidences 
that new corpuscles succeed the firstborn 
one on each pedicel as long as there remains 
any plastic matter within the spore. The 
latter, in fact, in consequence of this 
spore and corn: labour of production, becomes gradually 
Ducrymyces deliquescens. emptied, and yet preserves the generative 
pedicels of the corpuscles, even when it no longer contains any 
solid or coloured matter. These pedicels are not all in the same 
plane, as may be ascertained by turning the spore on its longi- 
tudinal axis; but it often seems to be so when they are looked 
at in profile, on account of the very slight distance which then 
separates them one from another. It will also be remarked that 
they are in this case often implanted all on the same side of the 
