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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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Fig. 9.— Mucor fusiger; A, young sexual organs; B,
after fertilization. Highly magnitied.

the Phycophytes, is fertilized by spermatozoids
from an antherid which, again, does not differ
in any essential respect from that of the Phy-
cophytes. However, the result of the fertiliza-
tion is the formation of a more or less com-
pound body which the botanist recognizes as a
primitive kind of fruit. Hence, the aquatic
Carpophytes are sometimes known as Fruit
Tangles. In these fruits are spores, and these
on escaping and germinating give rise to new
plants.

POISONOUS FUNGI
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FUNGI
The chlorophyll-bearing Carpophytes com-
prise nearly 2,500 species, and are widely dis-
tributed in the salt and fresh waters of the
globe. From these have sprung an enormous
host of parasitic and saprophytic species, which
are colorless, and constitute the great bulk of the
fungi of the world, aggregating fully 100 times
as many species as those from which they
sprang. In changing from the holophytic structure
and habits of their ancestral types, these hys-
terophytes (fungi) have suffered much degenera-
tion of the vegetative plant-body, while the re-
productive apparatus has been relatively enlarged
and multiplied. This is in accordance with the
well-known law that since hysterophytes do not
make carbohydrates they have little need of
large vegetative bodies, and further, that since
they are dependent upon particular hosts or
organic matter for their food, they must provide
more lavishly for propagation. Many of these
fungi are little more than absorbing and repro-
ducing organisms, the vegetative plant-body
having almost entirely disappeared through dis-
use.

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