Til ILI 







wor 



irille. [u • 

 nivbell "i il"' wr ipoaitioii, how ■ 



nnky « ill) reei at 



I the numerous d 

 hi .ill clear, I ordi d. I hat it must 1 a 1 



funii aiij opinion concerning Fungi, without Iouj 



from tin upon the gi mh I In lephi 



1 1. ., - ■ , ■ . lerationa or it 



following . :tll of which he has identified by means of uncpiestiona 



have been coustructi I; viz., Athclia niiuni ol Perso d, I! 



of I rotrichuin ol Kunze, Alytusporium ol Lin . Xyl tron . l 



I itonema ol !'• rs ion, and I h. Fr. Ni 



ua tliat the same fungoid matter which product 

 in tin whit icus volvaceua in the summer. It would thu 



that the opinions of those who have asserted tliat the 

 depends not upon thi Beed from which it springs, but upon the ni 

 it is nourished, are at least Bpecious ; i it we take thi in 



connection with the experiments of Dutrochet, who obtained <lit ; 

 Mouldineas at will, by employing different infusions. II u aeid Hi 



constantly yield Monilias, and that ci rtain alkaline niixti dly prodi 



. 1.30. For a description of tlie gradual development of an ' 

 nious observer's Memoir in the A' ..I I. iii. p. 76. I 



A*8 of Unger upon spurious Fungi, which he considers nothing but m di- 



tiirns (eruptions) of vegetable matter, see th< ind 



Berkeley's remarks thereupon, in /. . . vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 361. 



Since, Ii iwever, the n marks of I ngi r were published, I. vi ilk and < orda, aim 

 the same time, and quite independently of each other, made their tlie 



Mycelium ol Uredines and Puccinise, and Corda 



ded in making many germinate. Unger's spe- 

 culations, therefore, must l"- consid much in. 



validated, at least bo Ear as their being mere trai 

 mations of the cellular tissue, as is thi casein Erineum. 

 H ther animal and vegetable bodies are ever pro- 

 duced without pre-existent germs, belongs to quite 

 another question. And, as regards thi genera 

 uiiim, Himantia, &c, they are now regarded bj all 

 good mycologists as mere barren states, or anamor- 

 phoses of other spi cii - : and the Bame is probably true 

 of many of the more anomalous Fungi : and the obser- 

 vations of Leveille, in the Annates di - Scii nci - Natu- 

 rellea, go v< r\ far to prove that the whole genua S 

 rutituii belongs to 1 1 1« - sami . Some of them, 



as Acrospermum cornutum, and Sclerotium mrceto- 

 k, are undoubtedly mi re forms, and have ii" right 

 whatever to be considered as Bpeci s; otl 

 from tlir condensation of the filamentous tufts of 

 in. mills ; others, as S. lutornni, are lin' 

 upon the roots, and the celebrated Ergot i- produced 

 by the action of a minute parasite. There i^ ind 

 difficulty about rach Bpecies as Sclerotium scutellatum ; 

 l.m there is Little >l<nil't that, in the main, 1 eveille's 

 observations, even though from the nature of the Bub- 

 jjecl the proof is nol rigorous, are founded in fact, 

 supposed species of Uredo are men 1\ the young 

 ol Puccu . jma, &c ; but there are also true 



Bpecies ol the genu 

 1841, vol.ii. ... 2. 



KiitziiiL:, in his P v i.n the Transformation 



of Plants, asserts that from one and the 

 material, even when it has acquired form and i 

 developed, which, according t.» the circumstani 

 Algals, Fungi, Lichens, or M ss - : and tl 



\ \ \. 



N - S iv - P inia gramii . 

 sf tin. plant on which it grows. 



