. Timber storage conditions in the eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. Lumber Sanitation: Wood-Rotting Fungi.—I. Fig. 1.—Thin section of red-heart pine, showing fungous threads and holes where these have boredthrough the walls of the wood cells. Fig. 2.—Mycelium on a board from a clay mine, Joplin, 3.—The mushroom Pluteus cervinus on a rotten log. Fig. 4.—A species of Hydnum. Bui. 510, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Lumber Sanitation: Wood-Rotting Fungi.—II. Fig. 1.—Strands of mycelium of the dry-rot* fungus, Ifcrulius lachnjman$; on the face of pine p


. Timber storage conditions in the eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. Lumber Sanitation: Wood-Rotting Fungi.—I. Fig. 1.—Thin section of red-heart pine, showing fungous threads and holes where these have boredthrough the walls of the wood cells. Fig. 2.—Mycelium on a board from a clay mine, Joplin, 3.—The mushroom Pluteus cervinus on a rotten log. Fig. 4.—A species of Hydnum. Bui. 510, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Lumber Sanitation: Wood-Rotting Fungi.—II. Fig. 1.—Strands of mycelium of the dry-rot* fungus, Ifcrulius lachnjman$; on the face of pine planksin a lumber pile at Portland, Me. (the fungus has progressed to a height of six layers or more). —The same fungus on the ground and in litter beneath an open storage shed, Philadelphia, 3.—Mycelium of a white Poria on the ground and on wood fragments beneath a cotton mill,Adams, Mass. Fig. 4.—Powdery deposit of spores cast by a mushroom over night (after Atkin-son). Fig. 5.—A species of Poria from a porch ceiling. Madison, Wis. Fig. 6.—Thin section ofan encrusting fruit body of Mcrulius lachrymam, showing palisade lavcr of basidia bearing spores(after Falck). TIMBER STORAGE IN THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN STATES. and sweep over the lumber, wetting it and depositing silt over greatquantities of the stock (fig. 2). The writer has seen instances alongthe Atlantic seaboard where lumber stacks at least 12 feet high werethus s


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