. The mushroom book : a popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner Fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties . Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Edible; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. CHAPTER III: FROM SPORE TO MUSHROOM The way in which a spore grows into a fungus plant is very simple: (i) The spore is a single cell, and when it is in a warm, moist place it swells. (2) The cell absorbs food through its cell wall and divides into two cells. ° O (3) Each new cell absorbs food and divides until long chains of cells are formed, looking to the unaided eye like threads. Each thread is a
. The mushroom book : a popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner Fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties . Mushrooms; Mushrooms, Edible; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. CHAPTER III: FROM SPORE TO MUSHROOM The way in which a spore grows into a fungus plant is very simple: (i) The spore is a single cell, and when it is in a warm, moist place it swells. (2) The cell absorbs food through its cell wall and divides into two cells. ° O (3) Each new cell absorbs food and divides until long chains of cells are formed, looking to the unaided eye like threads. Each thread is a hypha, and a tangle of threads is a mycelium. ^=^ (4) In the soil the mycelium nour- ishes itself on decaying vegetable matter, and grows ; then, at certain points, the threads mat together to form little balls the size of pin- heads (a). (b) The pinheads grow to the size of stemmed pears on toadstool, a the button, button increase in size. The button is lifted above the soil and expands into a mushroom. (6) If the button is to become a puff- ball, no stem appears on the button ; but II (c) The bird-shot increase to the size of shoe-buttons. (5) If the ball is to become a minute stem ap- The stem and. 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 Marshall, Nina L. (Nina Lovering). Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page
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