. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. THALLOPHYTES: FUNGI 71 has a stalk-like portion, the stipe, at the base of which the slend6r mycelial threads look like white rootlets; and an expanded, umbrella-like top called the pileus. From the under surface of the pileus there hang thin radiating plates, or gills (Fig. 55). Each gill is a mass of interwoven fila- ments (hyphse), whose tips turn toward the surface and form a compact layer of end cells (Fig. 56). These end. Fig. 60. A bracket fungus (.Polyporvs) growing on the trunk of a red oak.— Caldwell. cells, forming the surface of the gill, ar
. Plants; a text-book of botany. Botany. THALLOPHYTES: FUNGI 71 has a stalk-like portion, the stipe, at the base of which the slend6r mycelial threads look like white rootlets; and an expanded, umbrella-like top called the pileus. From the under surface of the pileus there hang thin radiating plates, or gills (Fig. 55). Each gill is a mass of interwoven fila- ments (hyphse), whose tips turn toward the surface and form a compact layer of end cells (Fig. 56). These end. Fig. 60. A bracket fungus (.Polyporvs) growing on the trunk of a red oak.— Caldwell. cells, forming the surface of the gill, are club-shaped, and are called hasidia. From the broad end of each basidium two or four delicate branches arise, each bearing a minute spore, very much as the sporidia appear in the wheat 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 Merle, 1851-1928. New York, D. Appleton and company
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