Violet matter, soluble in water. 
Fixed phosphoric acid. 
Jlzotized matter, very abundant and alterable. 
Free ammonia, at 100° Reaumur. 
Thus far the argument against the ergot being a species of 
fungus are taken from the body itself; but by experiments and 
minute examinations of the particles which separate from its 
surface, or are found in the viscid fluid which lodges external- 
ly, additional proofs can be obtained that corroborate the 
former views of its nature. 
When these particles are placed under a microscope, and 
magnified about 1000 times (linear) their minute structure be- 
comes then discernible, and their shape is seen to be oval or 
elliptical, and occasionally a little contracted about midway, 
and contain several green granules, whose number varies in 
different particles; most frequently there are one, two, or three 
well defined spots in their interior, and occasionally there are 
as many as ten or twelve; and there can be no doubt that these 
minute bodies are the reproductive agents of a particular fun- 
gus, to which particles the term sporidia is applied, to cha- 
racterize them, because their structure is unlike seeds, not- 
withstanding their office is the same. Various conditions of 
these are seen at fig. 8. 
figs. C, 7, 8 and 9. 
