. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 382 THE NON-VASCULAR PLANTS mycelium is of no value to him unless it produces ar abundant crop of the reproductive organs. Mushrooms are usually grown in cellars or in mushroom houses, which are but dimly lighted. Light is not needed for the crop, To get the right temperature, the right moisture, and the right food supply is the problem. The spawn is spread in manure which needs to be at just a certain stage oi decay in order to pro- duce the best results.
. Plant life and plant uses; an elementary textbook, a foundation for the study of agriculture, domestic science or college botany. Botany. 382 THE NON-VASCULAR PLANTS mycelium is of no value to him unless it produces ar abundant crop of the reproductive organs. Mushrooms are usually grown in cellars or in mushroom houses, which are but dimly lighted. Light is not needed for the crop, To get the right temperature, the right moisture, and the right food supply is the problem. The spawn is spread in manure which needs to be at just a certain stage oi decay in order to pro- duce the best results. The manure is covered with a thin layer of black earth. Pres- ently, if conditions are right, young mush- rooms, called buttons. Fig. 17g. — a portion of the surface of one of the begin tO break through gills of a common mushroom showing the way ^Jjg soil. in which the spores are borne. Note the club- All i ( • f 1 shaped structures bearing two prongs at whose Liue lungl lOl- tips the spores are borne. These club-shaped low this general plan structures are basidia. See context. r ^ . i j , . 01 growth and nutri- tion that we have noted as to toadstools and mushrdoms, but their reproductive habits are quite dissimilar. Some fungi have sex methods of reproduction in addition to the non-sex methods. As to nutrition, all true fungi have hyphse which absorb food. They also assimilate it. The whole work of nutrition goes steadily on in the mycelium, and then, when the conditions are just right, sporophores appear, the spores are scattered, and the sporophores dis- appear again. They shrivel up and die. The myceUum continues its work as long as it can. When the conditions. 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 Coulter, John G. (John Gaylord), b. 1876. New York, American Book Co
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