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and standing out from the trunk or log like the front piece of a 
cap, and varying in size from one inch to two feet across, and 
varying in texture from a soft, juicy, fleshy substance, which de- 
cays almost as soon as it has finished its growth, to the hard, 
woody or corky species that endure for several years, and before 
the introduction of lucifer matches, furnished the tinder to catch 
the spark from the flint and steel. If one of these Polypori that 
rea transparent horns, each bearing at its tip a single minute, 
their attachment, out of the tubes in which they grew, in such 
rapa Species ; the color of the spores, however, in Polypori 
on of th 
of a vertical 
Ward tei are exposed instead of their mouths. This down- 
Os oh: is finely illustrated in a specimen of Polyporus igni- 
| Pe rs I lately found on the trunk of a dead oak that had 
Pa odged on another tree at an angle of about 45°. The 
ing, and ha, d d commenced its growth while the trunk was stand- 
parent fror continued to grow after the trunk had fallen, as was 
length of the. a bend or angle of about 45° about midway in the 
War ~] PU so as to continue their growth directly down- 
J-B. Ellis, Newfield, N. J. 
i Ling . STILIZATION IN LOBELIA, &c.—E. Haviland, in Proc. 
tat ofc S. Wales, vim, pp. 182-86, describes the develop- 
: DE Vn ao, ie and Pe n species of Lobelia. The anthers 
