FUNGI. 



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But one fungus, called Saprolegnca (fig. 859), is a great pest to us 

 in the fish breeding season. It attacks the ova, and completely 

 encrusts it, destroying the young trout inside. Some naturalists consider 

 it to be an alga, others a fungus ; but whichever systematic writers 

 please to call it, it is very destructive to the ova of fish, and we find 

 it necessary to remove the affected eggs as soon as possible, to prevent 

 them all from being destroyed. 



Fie. 60. Ascomyces deformans 

 magnified. 



FIG. 859 Saprolegnea >n Ovum 

 nat. size, and x 20 diam. 



Almond-trees and peach leaves are often curled and distorted. 

 According to my observations, this is due to an injury inflicted by an 

 aphis. The Rev. Mr. Berkeley, however, ascribes the result to a fungus, 

 vnich I have reproduced from his "Outlines of British Fungology," 

 where he calls it the Ascomyces deformans or Ascosporium deformans 

 (fig. 860). Although every year this distortion of the leaves occurs, I 

 have not seen this fungus myself, and many other botanists accustomed 

 to search for minute fungi have not discovered it. I believe that the 

 aphis is constantly present, and that the fungus is but rarely so. 



MY FERNERIES. 



It is always refreshing to walk from the set flower-garden where, 

 as Delille says, everything is symmetrical to the wild garden, where 

 everything is natural. 



" Soin done ces froids jardins, colifichet champe"tre, 

 Insipides reMuits, dont 1'insipide maitre 

 Vous vante, en s'admirant, ses arbres bien peignes ; 

 Ses petits salons verts, bien tondus, bien soigne*s ; 

 B \\ 



