DESCRIPTION OF PLATE VI 
DISPERSAL OF SPORES 
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Fig. i.—T he cap of Phallus impudicus, the common Stinkhorn 
Fungus, with flies devouring the gluten. (Two-thirds natural size.) 
Fig. 2. — SpluFVobolus stellalus, group of plants growing on wood. 
Fig. 3.—Young plant, magnified. 
Fig. 4.—Mature plant about to discharge the peridiolum. 
Fig. 5. —Same after extrusion of the inner membrane. 
Fig. 6.—Magnified section of Sphcerobolus stellalus, showing the 
peridiolum lying within the cup-shaped recep-tacle. 
Fig. 7.— Scleroderma vulgare (half natural size), showing holes in the 
cortex made by beetles. 
Fig. 8.—Ascus and paraphyses of Saccobolus kerverni, highly mag¬ 
nified (after Massee), showing the spores arranged in an oblong cluster 
at the top of the ascus. 
Fig. 9. — Fomes annosus growing on larch roots taken from the roof of 
a rabbit burrow. (One-quarter natural size.) 
Fig. 10.—An agaric with a slug devouring the gills. 
Fig. 11.—A puff-ball (Lycoperdon). The spines are worn away, the 
thin peridium is collapsing, and the spores are escaping through an 
aperture at the summit. 
