Tn u 



II NGA1 





Pol} ponu romentarii luced in I 



placing wood in ■ favourable ritual it well a i 



props were obtained in the year. /" 



\ i which grows on the living branch 



and which has Lx i n di scribed I \ Mr. I 



y, under the name ol Cyttaria Darwinii, rorms a principal , 



n;iti' rra del Fuego during many iths ol the \. ar. 



Fungi are much used in Australia by the nati 

 The large truffle Mylitta australis, Berk., which attains a weight 

 pounds, i* known under the nam.- of native bn ad. Thi 

 larly fond "i Fungi, and some spi ci( a they hui I uring tin 



urst through the earth, that it is very difficult to obtain a well-{ 

 Mr. I isealso informs us that Fungi are much us 



which he particularly alludes ai ■>■ probably Polyporus portent . I ■ : . 

 could cnl\ be eaten in the al 

 I by botai 

 One or two s] din medicine Sphaeria sin 



Lond. Journ. ol Bot., is 



amongst the Chinese, and is much i 



I hi Halde's 1 k, but probably without i 



Man} Fungi were admitted into the old I'har- 

 macopo icidia auricula - : 



. i ■ ■ mi 11a mesenU rica, but at | i 

 they are little if at all used. 



Lysurus mokusin is considered bj the Chit 

 ii excellent remedy u j. It 



is also eaten, but is often poisonous. The ji i : 

 volva of the nearly alii 

 in N / land. 



Ergot of rye is well known for it- - 

 action on the uterus, and is in c 

 the most valuable ren rn Pliar- 



macopa ia. It is, how 

 It is unhappily no l< ss notorious I 

 i f'nl effects it produces on the human 

 * when it exists in considerable quant I 

 a bread- using the most terrible ulcers and 



r -. which at length destroy die 



K^£^mW/ Similar i ll'i'i't- I !\ : Imii > \ ] ri. in-, il f'n.iii 



"i mouldy provisions. Interesting details on the 

 v ubject "ill I"- found in Burui tt's I 

 A Pi Id nslovi 's Re] ort on tin 1 ' 



,J Wheat, in the Journal "t the Royal & 

 Vgricultu . . vol. ii. part 1. Copio 



\\ill also be I "111111 in Phoebus's D< ut» lilands Cr} p 



< in the 1 

 Ergot Smith and Quekett's Memoir, I 

 x\ iii. p. 152, •"•. and \i\. p. 1 ."'7. -linnM be • 

 . i has lately confirmed t! 

 Smith and Quekett; and more recently a Memoir on th< 

 published bj 1 



Of parasitica] Fungi, the most important are those which an ci 11 

 Polyporus destructor, Merulius lacrymans and . &c, which 



of wooden constructions: next to these come the blight in corn, • 

 ruccinia graminis ; the smut and ergot, if thej are reallj 

 and disorganised tissue of the plants affected; the r 

 Qredos and Puccinise; and finally, in tlii- 

 call mildew, minute simple articulated Mucors, and M 

 moulds on bread, preserves, &c, are but too well known. In 

 u in cheese, provisions are thought to be improved bj tliei 

 according to the observations of Mr. rlassall, a] 

 duced by tin in. The genus Rh omorpha (which i" • 

 Renus, consisting of imperfectly developed Sphserite, l 

 dark mines far from the fight of day, and is remarkal 



1 \ \i\ * 



llll f.'I J 



Sphaeria sinensis 1 



