Thau FUNGAL1 



murrain, but the use "f a soluti 

 the tally ap] 



lir. Oral 



not to thi 

 of dead mycelium 



The i ii animal Btructui 



and .1 host of 1 ow on record, « 



i, but t!i .■ • /' 

 tain. Full in; it will be found in R 



tent swr I'll \ 



i in the evacual ti 

 from ino 

 iny foundation for thi tion 1 



1. It Lb, i. ■■'.'.• ■■ dar thai 



impany the d tot* England, and that no one 



r them to tl. r origin. They • 



Bunt. l>ut their Bize and I e are quit with this / 



.. 28, 1849, •• B idd on Malignant I mth and I 



1 re Bodies," in Land. ' 1 B 19. ColL Phy$. on i 



It bs known that poisonous fungi are more d 



their age, ami it has been supposed that this circumstai lue to ti 



Dumber of Bporee. A '■■ to us in v. 



porarj inconvenience was experienced fi intity of I 



New Light h;us been thrown byMonsii urTulasne on ti- nature of ergot. U 

 "tily from hi but from other facts which were observed al 



■ame time, that ergot is really a myo tain fungi allied I 



known Insect Fungus of New Zealand.- T 1851. It is curi 



that notwithsl strong specific action which ergot exercises on the 



ami the frightful disease which it causes, when existing in any considerable quant 

 in bread-corn, that it is devoured raw with impunity by children in sotm- ; the 



continent, who know it under tin- name of St. John's Bread. If 

 ecting the true nature of ergot be correct, the Oidium abortij 

 :id form of fruit, in accordance with many facts observed lately in fungi. Fi 

 long ago announced the fact, that Beveral genera supp I arc in I 



ely different forms of fructification, as I 

 of / , \i. These views were, however, considered ) tical till 



the matter was taken up hy Tulasne, who has collected man] Bad I 



subject, wh Berkeley and Broome have in more than one instance 



two supp nera growing from a common stroma. Sj 



i internally, and oaked 

 ;ii;e perithelium. In 

 by the side of naked didymous Bporee. The mycelium of v 

 observed to have dist the tips of 1 



true mould. It is very probable that the <^<i\, ra of fungi will i 

 tin- continual] se of such observations, and that double frud 

 general amongst fungi as it has been found to be tie 



S <■ Tvl. :. i : dm, 1851. Berk, and Br., in 11- fc. Land. J 



Fungi have the power of penetrating verj deeply into c mp i 

 ana of their mycelium. In hard v. 

 mycelium is found not only running b I ad over I 



their cavity. It 1 ae Lx • 

 arc unfavourable to the growth of fun.-:. [1 

 books bound in strong-scented leathei areassubjeel tol 

 • the publication of the first edition of tl 

 eir obs4 . to varion 



success than amongst those which . 

 of the asci and sporophores from the cellular i 

 assumes, are figured with such precision as to li ive i th I ' 

 All attempts at artificial cultivation at a distance from tl I 



failed, and their elaborate work, which enters int ■ as 



structure, > prospect of i ' 



The present warm Bumm produced in Frai .rious 



