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EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXXIII— XXXVIII. 
PLATE XXXIII. 
FIG. 
Frontispiece. A large specimen of Polysaccum crassipes. 
PLATE XXXIV. 
1. Specimens of the fung-ns. Some shov/ the ruptured peridium. 
2. The fungus in its natural habitat. The peridium is ruptured. 
3. Further specimens of the fungus. One is cut through longitudinally to show 
the peridiola. 
PLATE XXXV. 
4. A peculiarly shaped form of the fungus. 
5. Photomicrograph, showing basidia. 
6. Drawing of basidia and spores, highly magnified. 
PLATE XXXVI. 
7. Photomicrograph of section through peridiola, showing spores and the walls of 
the peridiola. 
8. Photomicrograph to show sterile peridiola which occur in the stalk and also 
along the peridial walls, which they serve to strengthen. 
PLATE XXXVII. 
9. From a painting by Miss Lansdell. The fungus surrounding rootlets, and in one 
case attached to a decaying stalk. 
10. Fungus mass on roots. 
PLATE XXXVIII. 
11. From a painting by Miss Lansdell. Fungus mass on roots and separate rhizo- 
morphic threads. 
12. Section through root, showing the pseudo-parenchymatous mass which the 
fungus forms between the cork cells. 
