BREAD MOLD 



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252. Bread Mold. — When examined with the naked eye, 



bread mold appears like a thick mass of felt, made up 



Figure 376. — Bread Mold. 



of colorless, closely interwoven threads. These threads 

 are called hyphce (hi'fe: Greek, hyphe, web) and are of 

 two kinds, one lying on the surface of the bread or just 



below it, and the other standing 

 upright above the surface. The 

 first are the nutritive hyphaB, and 



Figure 377. - Mold 

 Grown from Water. 



Figure 378. — Cap Fungi. 



the second the reproductive. On the ends of tin- latter 

 are round black bodies which are full of Bpores, each of 



