LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT 



Coprinus comatus, Fr. (old) 

 Coprinus comatus, Fr. (mature) . 

 Coprinus comatus, Fr. (young) . 



Puffball 



Corollas and honey, attractive to insects 

 Ingenious stamens .... 



Pistil of violet 



Seed-box of iris 



Pistil of St. Johnswort 



Seed-box of sacred bean 



Winged seed of the silver fir 



Fern with spores (Polypodium vulgare) 



Grass spikelet 



Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) . 

 Bean seed to show embryo 



Indian pipe 



Moss (Dicranum scoparium) (natural size) 



White mould on dead fly . 



Spores borne in delicate membranous sacs 



Bread mould 



Spores borne on little spicules . 

 Spores as simple cells 

 Spores divided into several cells 

 Mycelial threads .... 

 Mushroom buttons .... 

 Young mushroom .... 

 Puffball 



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