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Masses.— A Monograph of 
Fig. 9. Rhizopogon luteolus , Fr. Spores ( x 400.) 
Fig. 10. Melanogaster variegatus, Tul. Spores ( x 400). 
Fig. 11. Melanogaster Broomeianus, Berk. Basidia and spores ( x 400). 
(Drawn from type in Herb. Berk., Kew.) 
Fig. 12. Octaviania comp acta, Tul. Spores ( x 400). 
Fig. 13. Hymenogaster vulgaris, Tul. Spores ( x 400). 
Fig. 14. Hydnanginm carneum , Wallr. Spores (X400). 
Fig. 15. Hymenogaster olivaceus, Yitt. Spores ( x 400). 
Fig. 16. Hymenogaster olivaceus, Vitt. Var. modestus ( x 400). (Drawn from 
type specimens in Herb. Berk.) 
Fig. 17. Hymenogaster pallidus , B. and Br. Spores (X400). (Drawn from 
type specimen in Herb. Berk., Kew.) 
Fig. 18. Hymenogaster luteus,\ itt. Spores (x 400). 
Fig. 19. Hymenogaster griseus, Yitt. Spores ( x 400). 
Fig. 20. Hymenogaster muticus , B. and Br. Spores ( x 400). (Drawn from 
type specimens in Herb. Berk.) 
Figs. 21, 21 a. Hymenogaster pusillus, B. and Br. 21, plants nat. size; 21 a, 
various forms of basidia with spores ( x 400). (Drawn from type specimens in 
Herb. Berk.) 
Fig. 22. Hymenogaster decorus , Tul. Spores ( x 400). (Drawn from authentic 
specimens sent by Tulasne to Berkeley, and now in Herb. Berk.) 
Figs. 23, 23 a. Hymenogaster dec or us, Tul. 23, portion ofhymenium showing 
various forms of basidia and sterigmata (after Tulasne, Fung. Hypog., t. x, f. ix, 
2) ; 23 a, a basidium bearing a single spore ( x 400). 
Fig. 24. Hymenogaster Klotzschii, Tul. Spores ( x 400). (Drawn from the 
original specimens collected by Klotzsch near Glasgow, now in Herb. Berk.) 
Fig. 25. Hymenogaster Thwaitesii , B. and Br. Spores (X400). 
Figs. 26, 26 a. Lycoperdon Cookei , Mass. 26, section of plant, nat. size ; 26 a, 
spores ( x 400), the larger ones ( x 1000). (Drawn from type in Herb., Kew.) 
Figs. 27, 27 a. Geaster Michelianus , W. G. Smith. 27, section of fully de- 
veloped plant before the rupture of the exoperidium ; a, b, exoperidium, consisting 
of a, an outer brown fibrous coat, lined by a white layer, a\ together constituting 
the fibrillose layer ; b, the collenchyma-layer ; c, split-layer ; d, endoperidium ; 
e, columella; f, gleba, nat. size; 270, spores (X400). (Drawn from authentic 
specimens from W. G. Smith, now in Herb., Kew.) 
Figs. 28, 28 a. Geaster striahis , D. C. 28, mature plant with the exoperidium 
expanded; a, exoperidium; b, endoperidium; c, peristome, nat. size; 28a, spores 
( x 400). 
PLATE II. 
Figs. 29, 29 b. Batiarrea phalloides, Pers. 29, plant, nat. size ; a, volva ; b, 
portion of volva carried up on the peridium ; c, peridium ; d, stem or recepta- 
culum ; 29 a, spores ( x 400) 529 b, elongated cells containing spiral or annular 
thickenings, forming the scanty capillitium ; a, the original point of attachment 
of the cell to a hypha ( x 400). (Drawn from a specimen collected in Kent.) 
Figs. 30, 30#. Lycoperdon gemmatitm , Batsch. 30, plant, nat. size; a, peri- 
dium ; b, sterile stem-like base ; 30 a, spores (x 400), the large one x 1000. 
