. St. Nicholas [serial] . WE PICKED UP, ONE DAY, A BRANCHED STICKCOVERED WITH DAINTY CUPS. (Sarcoscypha jlocossa.) button-like form pushing its head above , as it grows taller, swells and expands atthe top into a bulb-shaped body ; and soon, onthe under side, we see a break in the skin orveil. The top keeps swelling andthe skin splitting till we have thegills in sight, stretching from outeredge of cap to top of stem. Theirentire surfaces are covered withminute club-like protuberanceswhich hold and scatter the tinydust-like particles or spores, justas flowering plants do their seeds.
. St. Nicholas [serial] . WE PICKED UP, ONE DAY, A BRANCHED STICKCOVERED WITH DAINTY CUPS. (Sarcoscypha jlocossa.) button-like form pushing its head above , as it grows taller, swells and expands atthe top into a bulb-shaped body ; and soon, onthe under side, we see a break in the skin orveil. The top keeps swelling andthe skin splitting till we have thegills in sight, stretching from outeredge of cap to top of stem. Theirentire surfaces are covered withminute club-like protuberanceswhich hold and scatter the tinydust-like particles or spores, justas flowering plants do their is the mission of our mush-rooms, for what we see aboveground is only the fruiting body—the real body of the plant liesunderground. Let us follow oneof those minute spores down in the rich, moistearth. It swells, absorbs food through itswalls, and divides into two cells. These againswell and divide until we have a tangle ofwhite thread-like substances called the myce-lium—the real body of the plant. At many. THAT BROWN-LOOKINGCORNUCOPIA. (Craterelles cornucopioides.) points the threads mat together,forming tiny knobs which increase in size andpush upward until they break the soil and lookout upon our world, where they soon becomethe familiar parasol-shaped mush-room. How strikingly differentare fungi from other plants! Theyhave no green leaf, and none ofthat wonderful green coloring-mat-ter, chlorophyl, which takes carbonfrom the air and hydrogen gasand oxygen gas from water andforms them into food for theplant, so making it an independentbeing. As the Fungi lack this,they must get the food alreadymade by some other plant or ani-mal. That is the reason we findthem attached to trees, logs, anything that willfurnish them with the desired food. Manyforms look like flowers , and are just asbeautiful. ;-
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