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trunks of Beech trees {Fagus sylvatica var. Sieboldi) in autumn 



Fig. 163. — Pleurotus japonicus, a fungus with luminescent gills. The imbricating 

 fruit-bodies are growing from the top of a dead and rotten Beech trunk. Photo- 

 graphed in Japan by S. Kawamura. Reduced to \ natural size. 



(Fig. 163), They are very poisonous and, in consequence of their 



