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erusl I ' rrigo lupino a !•■ I 



i 1 ; anil these obw rvations hai 

 ml. w .. Part '-', p. -77, wb 

 lining membrane or chei bj matter of tub rculai 



the development of a mould on the Bkin ■ ■; living gold-fish. Much in 

 trill 1»- found on the subject in the place above qui 



In their simplest form Fungi are little articulated filaments, 

 cellules placed end to end ; such Lb the mouldiness that is found 



stances, the mildew of thi R ih, and, in Bhort, :.ll thi 



Min'i'i- and Mucedo ; in Borne of tbesi the joint* 



appear to In- capable of reproduction ; in ol i in 



the terminal joints, and are finally disp rsed b) the ruptu 



cellule that contained them. In a bighei 



Pungi are maaa b of cellular I 



whole centre of which consiste of spores attach 



gether, to the cellular i ;-~n--, which at length drii b up, 



dust-like mass intermixed more or less with flocci, as in the j 



balls, or sporidia contained in membran 



thecse ol Lichens, as in the Sphmrias. In their most com] 



they consist of two suj I which is even and in > 



J layer in Lichens; tl ther Beparated into plates or cells, and ■ 



tin- hymenium, t" whose component cells, which form a stratum res mbling the pile of 



the Bp res are attached by means of little pi rally in I 



though occasionally the number is either 1< ~s or great' r. Many of . main 



barren ; but after a time i 1 

 i- ■ - m cf fertile cells 



stoutly making it- ap] 

 ance above the Burface of the 

 hymenium ; and, what is more 

 remarkable, the spicules or 

 Bterigmata, which support and 

 p\r rise to the spores, have 

 I.. . n obsen ed by Corda to pro- 

 duce a succession of fruit, a 

 new spore being produced* 

 the old one had fallen. This, 

 he informs us, is vi ry easy of 

 ■ii in Agaricus plu- 

 Besides the barren and 

 li rtile cells, other bodies are 

 rved which have been sn]>- 

 I x • ! by authors to y< rform 

 the office of anthers. These 

 have long been known in the 





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I 



1 Wll. 



dunghill Agarics, but they appear to be ; nerally distributed. The tnn- -■ 



lure of the more perfect Pungi has onlj been recognised within a fen years, t' ( 

 Huiler, half a centurj since, gave a correct figure of it in Agaricus comatus, an I 

 are indications of it scattered through many woi -. Leveilhfs Memoir in A 

 Sciences Naturelles, that of Berkeley in the Annals of Nat History, of 1 

 Acta I •- 1. op., and those ol B and Tulasne in the Ann 



Ann. d S Nat on the fructification of Lycoperdons, as also that ol th< 

 Tulasne on Hypogteoua Pungi, may be consulted on this subject 



Upon this kind of difference of structure, Pungi have not onlj I 

 distinctly marked tribes, but it has been proposed to s> parati a rtaii I 

 under the name of Byssacesa, Gasteromyci, and Hypoxyla: the fin 

 tin- filamentous Pungi found in cellars, and similar plants ; tl 

 and tin- like ; and the third species which approach Lichens in the I 

 tim-t nucleus for the sporales, such a- Sphaeria. But I : 

 distinct group, and the two las) as IV 



Some writers have questioned thi propri 



I \ \ I — Botrytis carta. 



I \\;i L. Spot . • \ ■ 



uiiovntus, » 

 Haft-ells el i . iporidium of rul 



tapite; 5. sporidium of Pei '•■' triUi il 



with .i large globose nucleus. 



