. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 839.—Giant Fig. 841.—Dacrymyces sdllatus and Sporophores, magniiied. Fig. 840.—Phallus impudicus (Fruit X 700 diam.). I am not certain whether the Phallus impudicus (fig. 840) has ever appeared in my garden, but I have seen it in quantities in the month of August at the Kew pleasure-grounds. If cut in half, both parts continue to grow in a damp atmosphere. When mature, it exhales the most disturbingly offensive effluvium. Some fungi dry up, and swell ag
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 839.—Giant Fig. 841.—Dacrymyces sdllatus and Sporophores, magniiied. Fig. 840.—Phallus impudicus (Fruit X 700 diam.). I am not certain whether the Phallus impudicus (fig. 840) has ever appeared in my garden, but I have seen it in quantities in the month of August at the Kew pleasure-grounds. If cut in half, both parts continue to grow in a damp atmosphere. When mature, it exhales the most disturbingly offensive effluvium. Some fungi dry up, and swell again when moistened by rain. This . is the case with the Dacrymyces stillatus (fig. 841). One day I passed one of my bridges, when no fungus was apparent. A little rain fell, when on crossing the bridge a few minutes afterwards the woodwork was found to be covered with this species of fungus. Many species of fungi grow upon the living leaves of plants, and do much injury to them. In early spring the leaves of our violets are affected with a fungus called the JEcidium violce (fig. 842), which, on examination, proves to consist of beautiful cups. At my garden only a few leaves have been attacked by it, and I never knew extensive damage to arise from it. During the spring of 1871 an aecidium was noticed on one of our Portugal quince trees, which had been some years in my garden. It has been pronounced by Mr. Worthington Smith to be Aicidium cydonicB (fig. 843), a species new to this country, though known to foreign 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 Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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