. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Classification of Plants 225. Fig. igS. — Geaster (earth-star). veil of interwoven mycelium which was attached to the edge of the umbrella (pileus) and protected the gills. The stalk of this one stands in a cup which, like the ring, is the remains of a protecting veil. But this one extended over the cap. When the cap pushed through, parts of the veil made the rough patches on the cap. Do not eat this kind. The rough cap tells of the cup below, and a Mushroom is quite apt to be poison- ous if it has a cup at the base. Puff balls are a kin
. Plants and their ways in South Africa. Botany; Botany. Classification of Plants 225. Fig. igS. — Geaster (earth-star). veil of interwoven mycelium which was attached to the edge of the umbrella (pileus) and protected the gills. The stalk of this one stands in a cup which, like the ring, is the remains of a protecting veil. But this one extended over the cap. When the cap pushed through, parts of the veil made the rough patches on the cap. Do not eat this kind. The rough cap tells of the cup below, and a Mushroom is quite apt to be poison- ous if it has a cup at the base. Puff balls are a kind of Mushroom. When you pinch them the spores come out in a cloud. The earth star is a pretty little puff ball, which looks like a star, and grows close on the earth in the spring. An outer cover or peridium splits back when the spores are ripe and forms the star. C. Bacteria.—These are minute organisms frequently known as "germs". They each have a distinct life history; and while they are generally under a ban as disease-producing, many are necessary in the economy of Nature. They are, like fungi, destitute of chlorophyll, yet they can live under a great variety of conditions, in either the presence or absence of light, air and organic matter. Division II.—Bryophyta. Two well-defined stages characterize this group, each one bearing reproductive bodies from which the other is derived. In this alternation of generations the stage which arises from the union of the sexual cells, tlie sperm- and the egg-cell, and bears the spores, remains dependent upon the stage which bears the sexual cells. It contains the liverworts and mosses. Liverworts are often flattened green plants, growing in I ^. 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 Stoneman, Bertha. London, New York, Longmans, Green
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