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CLATHROIDES. 



Clathroides is a kind of plant which, before it emerges from 

 the volva, is round, or turbinate, but as soon as it projects 

 from it becomes elliptic. It is not hollow as in Clathrus, but 

 in marvelous ways interwoven throughout most cunningly 

 into the form of a net, within the meshes of which are con- 

 tained the heaps of round and dry seeds. 



The species of Clathroides are : 



1. Clathroides purple, furnished with a pedicel. 



2. Clathroides purple, without a pedicel. 



3. Clathroides yellowish, without a pedicel. 



CLATHROIDASTRUM. 



Clathroidastrum is a kind of plant, different from Clath- 

 roides, not only the volva, out of which it arises, being seen 

 with difficulty and being extremely fugacious, but also be- 

 cause it is furnished with a little stalk, which extends through 

 the middle from base to apex. 



The species of Clathroidastrum are — 



1. Clathroidastrum dark colored, of larger size. 



2. Clathroidastrum dark colored, of smaller size. 



LYCOGALA. 



Lycogala is a kind of plant, either round or roundish or 

 reniform; it is furnished with a single cortex and the inner 

 portion is reticulate; also it is filled with a rather thick fluid, 

 which, the plant being injured, flows away in drops; in these 

 drops are contained the round and very minute seeds. If, 

 however, the plant and the rich included fluid be allowed to 

 dry, the seeds are better observed. 



The species of Lycogala are — 



1. Lycogala gray and of larger size. 



2. Lycogala globose, the size of a pea, and the color of 

 melted bronze. 



3. Lycogala globose, red, the size and shape of a grain 

 of millet. 



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