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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fic. 18 Fig. 18.—■Humaria rutilans; spore-sac, and three par-aphyses. flighly magnified. Fic. 19.— Egg-cells and antherids o^ a cup fungus,flighly magnified. cave surface of which are found many asci(Fig. 18.) It will readily be seen that werethese cup-fruits to remain closed, their struc-ture would be closely similar to that of thefruits of the powdery mildews. However, thefruits of the cup fungi are often of considerablesize, sometimes being as large as an inch ormore in diameter. Lichens (see article Lichens) are now re-garded as nearly related to the cup fungi and.... black fungi. (Fig. 20.) In all essentials they agree phytes (Figs. 16 and 17), growing in the with those fungi, but they are usually treated sep-tissues of 4ecaying plants, as rotten logs, arately on account of the peculiar parasitism and .^ic. 16.— Diagrammatic verticalfungus. section of a cup Cup Fungi (Fezizacece) are typically sapro- FUNGI.—MUSHROOMS AND THEIR AFFINITIES,
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Fie. Vcnlcdl StEtion ihrouch Funeus. Under surface of Pileus or Cup. Rtproduciive OrBsns. * Am.dou or Gtrrajio Tinder. ^ Edible Csnibafellas. Common AVushroora. = Smaller Faiclcul«i= Agjnt. Sweei-smelliog Hydnum.Musbronm. Gobis beard or Yellow Flovarli. Fly-bloan Mushroom. Soeker Peiiis. * Bell-shiped Birds-otii. i» Dry-rol Fungus, ^ Umbellaie Polyporus. Hypoxylon polymorphum. Longliudlnal Section of d Truflle. i» Delicious Aearic. * Edible Bolcius. Edible Helvelta. Round-headed Morel. * Uiiiced Silnkhorn. * Wany Puff-ball. ^^. ^ Hysierlum of Ihe Ash. *- Brown Pulvloaie Sphari-i. FUNGI symbiosis which they exhibit. There are sev-eral families of the lichen-forming fungi, aggre-gating between 2,500 and 3,000 species.

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