CUPULIFERZ. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
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Beech-trees can be easily raised from seeds, which should not be allowed to dry before they are 
planted, as they soon become rancid and lose their power of germination.’ 
propagated by grafting. 
The varieties can be 
Fagus, the classical name of the Beech-tree, was used by Tournefort,? and afterward adopted by 
Linnzus, who joined, however, in his genus the Chestnut-tree with the Beech. 
surface of the branches small pustules from which exude yellowish 
gelatinous masses. 
Of the Hymenomycetes which abound on Beech-trunks the most 
striking and common are Agaricus adiposus, Fries, which is abun- 
dant in the autumn, Panus conchatus, Fries, Panus dorsalis, Fries, 
Phlehia radiata, Fries, and the conspicuous and beautiful Hydnum 
coralloides, Scopoli, which forms variously branching masses some- 
times as large as a human head, of a brilliant white color, with long 
depending teeth. Onygena faginea, Fries, is a characteristic and 
not uncommon fungus on the Beech; it grows on fallen trunks, 
appearing like small stalked puff-balls. The so-called Erineum of 
Beech-leaves, which is no longer considered a fungus, but merely a 
distortion of epidermal cells due to the attacks of Phytoptus, is the 
habitat of the fungus Microsphera erineophila, Peck. 
1 Cobbett, Woodlands, 145. 
2 Inst. 584, t. 351. 
