NATURE STUDY. 



Fig. 20 A Geaster with its collar turned dowii. 



A good growth 

 of a large kind 

 of a mould is 

 generally easily 

 obtained by 

 placing a piece 

 of bread slightly 

 moistened in a 

 closed fruit jar, 

 kept closed that 

 the air around 

 the bread may 

 remain moist 

 In some man- 

 ner the spores of 

 this mould are 



scattered everywhere so that the cleanest bread has some. In two 



fig. 21 The mould Mucor grown ou bread. The network is the mycelium; the knobs 

 are the spore bearing parts. Magnified. 



