. Comparative morphology of Fungi. Fungi. Fig. 301.—Broomeia congregata. A. Portion of stroma with fructifications, of stipitate stroma. {After Berkeley and Murray.) B. Section more than half a meter. According to Buller (1909, 1924), a specimen of normal size contains 7,500 billion spores, approximately as many as 4,000 average fructifications of Psalliota campestris. Thus, this is the most fruitful organism known. Were these spores all to germinate and each form a fructification the size of the parent and if all the spores of these were to form fructifications, there would be produced a fung
. Comparative morphology of Fungi. Fungi. Fig. 301.—Broomeia congregata. A. Portion of stroma with fructifications, of stipitate stroma. {After Berkeley and Murray.) B. Section more than half a meter. According to Buller (1909, 1924), a specimen of normal size contains 7,500 billion spores, approximately as many as 4,000 average fructifications of Psalliota campestris. Thus, this is the most fruitful organism known. Were these spores all to germinate and each form a fructification the size of the parent and if all the spores of these were to form fructifications, there would be produced a fungus mass 800 times the size of our planet. In two further genera, Diplocystis and Broomeia (Fig. 301), found in South Africa and the West Indies, there are joined together on a stroma 17 by 15 cm. over 900 fructifications (Pole-Evans and Bottomley, 1918); each is surrounded by its own two-layered peridium which at maturity tears stellately at the mouth. Unfortunately, the development. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gäumann, Ernst Albert, 1893-1963; Dodge, Carroll William, 1895-. New York [etc. ] McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
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