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Fig. 234. Reproductive bodies of some common fungi: A, bear's-head fungus 

 (Htjdniun); B, sponge mushroom or morel (Morchella) ; C, a poisonous toadstool 

 (Amanita); D, a puff ball (Calvatia) . 



one to many nuclei. Usually they are highly branched and form loose 

 cottony masses, such as mav be readilv seen in the bread mold. The 

 common meadow mushroom has colorless hyphae that spread in all 

 directions through a large mass of soil and are usually unseen unless one 

 digs carefully around the fruiting bodies that appear above the soil. 

 The "mushroom" is formed by the growing together and coalescence of 

 numerous hyphae into a compact characteristic structure. The whole 



