OTHER FUNGI 
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Put an equal amount into each of three tumblers. Place one tumbler 
in a cool place. Into one of the remaining tumblers stir a teaspoonful 
of sugar and set both in a warm place. Examine several times a day 
and write down all the differences you ob¬ 
serve in the three mixtures. Try to give a 
reason for everything you observe. 
276. Bread Mold. — When ex¬ 
amined with the naked eye, bread 
mold appears like a thick mass of 
felt, made up of colorless, closely 
interwoven threads. These threads 
are called hyphce (hi'fe : Greek, hyphe, 
web) and are of two kinds, one lying 
on the surface of the bread or just 
below it, and the other standing up¬ 
right above the surface. The first 
are the nutritive hyphse, and the 
second the reproductive. On the 
ends of the latter are round black 
bodies which are full of spores, each 
of which is capable of producing a 
new mold plant, if it falls into a place 
where conditions are favorable for 
growth, — that is, where it has plenty 
of food, the right degree of warmth, 
and sufficient moisture. Other kinds Figure 293 .— Shaggy-mane 
of fungi may usually be found on a loaf 
of bread after a day or two, as spores 
of many kinds of molds are floating 
in the air at all times (Figure 292). 
277. Other Fungi. — A common fungus is the one that 
kills flies in the fall. At that time a dead fly is often ob¬ 
served on a window or mirror, the body surrounded by a 
whitish ring. Such a fly has been killed by fungus hyphae 
which have filled the body. The ring is composed of spores 
(COPRINUS COMATUS) IN 
Perfect Condition for 
Picking. (From Murrill’s 
“ Edible and Poisonous 
Mushrooms.”) 
