Fungi: Their Nature and Uses

It is no longer doubted that fungi exercise a large and very important influence in the economy of nature. It may be that in some directions these influences are exaggerated; bu...

The parasitism of numerous minute species on living and growing plants has its parallel even amongst phanerogams in the mistletoe and broom-rape and similar species. Amongst fun...

The destructive silk-worm disease, _Botrytis Bassiana_, is also a fungus which attacks and destroys the living insect, concerning which an immense deal has been written, but whi...

As to the cultivation of moulds and _Mucors_, one great difficulty has to be encountered in the presence or introduction of foreign spores to the matrix employed for their devel...

Returning to _Cystopus_, as the last of the Uredines, we must briefly recapitulate the observations made by Professor de Bary,[K] who, by the bye, claims for them an affinity wi...

[U] This reminds one of Preuss's _Alternaria_, figured in Sturm's "Flora;" it has been suggested that the mould, as seen when examined under a power of 320 diam., is very much l...

From this imperfect summary it will be seen that no general scheme of geographical distribution of fungi can as yet be attempted, and the most we can hope to do is to compare co...

In _Peziza melanoloma_, A. and S., the same observer succeeded still better in his searches after the scolecite, which he remarks is in this species most certainly a lateral bra...

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The _Physomycetes_ consist of two orders, _Antennariei_ and _Mucorini_, which differ from each other almost as much in habitat as in external appearance. The former, if represen...

On the dead stems of nettles it is very common to meet with small orange tubercles, not much larger than a pin's head, which yield at this stage a profusion of slender linear bo...

_Lactarius piperatus_, Fr., is classed in England with dangerous, sometimes poisonous species, whereas the late Dr. Curtis, of North Carolina, has distinctly informed us that it...

The genera _Lentinus_ and _Lenzites_ are found in every region of the world; their principal centre, however, is in hot countries, where they attain a splendid development. On t...

PHYSOMYCETES include, especially amongst the _Mucorini_, many most interesting and instructive species for study, which even very lately have occupied the attention of continent...

One of the first and earliest suspected cases of dualism, which long puzzled the older mycologists, was observed amongst the Uredines, and many years ago it was held that there...

The exospore is sometimes roughened, with more or less projecting warts, as may be seen in _Russula_, which much resembles _Lactarius_ in this as in some other particulars. The...

There are no phenomena associated with fungi that are of greater interest than those which relate to luminosity. The fact that fungi under some conditions are luminous has long...

III. Spores naked, mostly terminal, on inconspicuous threads, free or enclosed in a perithecium CONIOMYCETES. Growing on dead or dying plants-- Subcutaneous-- Perithecium more o...

We come now to the second section of the _Sporifera_, in which no definite hymenium is present. And here we find also two families, in one of which the dusty spores are the prom...

[S] In the very important observations made by Dr. Cunningham at Calcutta, on substances floating in the atmosphere, it appeared that the sporidia of many _Sphæriæ_ actually ger...

Without some knowledge of the structure of fungi, it is scarcely possible to comprehend the principles of classification, or to appreciate the curious phenomena of polymorphism....

The "Gardener's Chronicle" has also sounded a note of warning that a species of Uredine has been very destructive to pelargoniums at the Cape of Good Hope. Hitherto these plants...

PERISPORIACEI.--Except in the perithecia rupturing irregularly, and not dehiscing by a pore, some of the genera in this group differ little in structure from the _Sphæriacei_. O...

False truffles, 98. Fairy-ring champignon, 94. Families and orders, table of, 80. Fenestrate sporidia, 135. Fetid fungi, 116. _Fistulina hepatica_, 96. Floras of Europe, &c., 27...

Recently an extraordinary instance of luminosity was recorded as occurring in our own country.[H] "A quantity of wood had been purchased in a neighbouring parish, which was drag...

TRICHOGASTRES.[T]--In their early stages the species contained in this group are not gelatinous, as in the _Myxogastres_, but are rather fleshy and firm. Very little has been ad...

Under the name of STYLOSPORES may be classed those spores which in some orders of _Coniomycetes_ are produced at the apex of short threads, either enclosed in a perithecium, or...

ÆCIDIACEI.--This group differs from the foregoing three groups prominently in the presence of a cellular peridium, which encloses the spores; hence some mycologists have not hes...

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