252 The Fungus Foot of India. 



"Diucli at tlie ankle, while the toes are hypertrophied, and almost 

 lost or imbedded in the mass. The small bones are nearly de- 

 stroyed, leaving behind a pallid or reddish tissue, while the 

 others are more or less excavated. There are the same canals 

 and external sanious apertures. In some parts they are filled 

 with the same fleshy tissue, in others lined with it, where large 

 cavities are formed by the junction of several canals containing 

 broken up osseous tissue from the exposed bones around, grey 

 fragments and masses of pigment. The pink colour is partly 

 owing to a general diffusion of pigment which tinges the oil- 

 globules, and. partly to the presence of very numerous single or 



aggregated elliptic particles. These granules are from the 

 fiftieth to the l-130th of an inch in diameter, and occur some- 

 times as single ellipses, sometimes as two combined at the ex- 

 tremities of their major axes, and sometimes as square bodies 

 with rounded extremities divided crucially into four. They do 

 not seem to be cells, at least cells of cellulose, containing a gru- 

 mous mass, but resemble rather certain Pahnellas. They are 

 quite visible to the naked eye, insomuch that when the sawn 

 surface is first exposed to view, it appears as if strewed with 

 grains of red pepper, and pains were therefore taken by Dr. 

 Carter to assure himself that they were not particles acciden- 

 tally introduced through the open window. Further examina- 

 tion convinced him that, though different in colour, they were 

 similar in essence to the granules described in the second form. 

 None of the black fungous masses appeared, but there were 

 globrlar opaque bodies of various size which now require 



