PROPERTIES OF CRYPTOGAMIC PLANTS. 117 



Aspergillus glaucus^ Lk. \ 



Mucor " Linn. Sp. PI. !• Blue mold. S. Caro- 



Monilla glcmca, Pers. ) 



lina. ! On various decaying substances, as lard, bread, cheese. 



One of tbe most common molds, and always unacceptable, 

 except upon cheese, which is valued when attacked by it. Crypt. 

 Eng. ii. 340. 



Pennicilium glaueum et roseum. 



These varieties of mucedonous vegetables are found to be de- 

 veloped in bread which proves poisonous ; their presence is sup- 

 posed to account for its deleterious effect. The effects produced 

 by rye bread in which these were found, were redness of the fea- 

 tures, dry tongue, frequent weak pulse, violent colic pains, urgent 

 thirst and headache, and subsequently vomiting and diarrhoea, 

 alternating with great exhaustion and sleepiness (Guerard, in An- 

 nales d'Hygeine Publique, xxix. 35). Christison on Poisons. 



Oulium erysiphoides, Fr. \ 



Sporotrichi'um macrosjporuin^ Grev., Fl. Edin. > Mildew Oid- 

 Torula hotryoides, Corda. ) 



ium. On leaves of various plants. Common. 



Yery destructive to peach trees, cabbages, &c. In the former 



case its progress is sometimes stopped by powdering the leaves 



and fruit with sulphur. Crypt. Eng. 



Podisoma tnacropus^ Schweinitz. Grows on cedar {Jimijpe- 

 rus) in St. John's, Berkley, S. C. Cedar apple. April. 



Tliis plant, Avhich exists in the form of a ball on cedar trees, is 

 supj)osed to possess considerable power as an anthelmintic. 



Fusisporiuin atrovirens, Berk. Dark green Fusisj)orium. 

 Summer. 



This is at least one cause of the mildew which is so destructive 

 to onions just before they arrive at perfection. 



Torula cervisim, Turpin. ) ^ . 

 -M -I ,, T^ c -teast. 



Mycodema " Desmaz. ) 



Turpin, who spent a night in a brewery for the purpose of ex- 

 amining the vesicles, found that on each two buds are developed, 

 each of which becomes a vesicle, which remains attached to the 

 parent one. If these are organized beings, it has been suggested 

 that the process of vinous fermentation is the immediate conse- 

 quence of their vegetation. " When placed in a saccharine fluid 

 they are supposed to grow at the expense of the sugar, which is 



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