. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. Fig. 127.—Developing sporangia of Miicor. A, swollen tip of sporophore; B, wall separating sporangium from the rest of the body. by keeping a piece of moist bread in a warm room un- der a glass vessel. The sources of its food supply indicate that it is a sapro- phyte. The body of Mucor is a good illustration of the bodies of ordinary Fungi. The principal part of the body consists of colorless branching threads, either isolated or more often in- terwoven, and is called the mycelium (Fig. 125). The interweaving may be very loose, the myceliu
. A text-book of botany for secondary schools. Botany. Fig. 127.—Developing sporangia of Miicor. A, swollen tip of sporophore; B, wall separating sporangium from the rest of the body. by keeping a piece of moist bread in a warm room un- der a glass vessel. The sources of its food supply indicate that it is a sapro- phyte. The body of Mucor is a good illustration of the bodies of ordinary Fungi. The principal part of the body consists of colorless branching threads, either isolated or more often in- terwoven, and is called the mycelium (Fig. 125). The interweaving may be very loose, the mycelium look- ing like a delicate cobweb; or it may be close and. Fig. 128.—Mature sporangium of .1/ ucor, showing wall (a), numerous spores (c), and partition wall pushed up into the cavity of the sporangium (6). Fig. 129.—Burst sporangium of Mucor, the ruptured wall not being shown, the loose spores adhering to the con- vex jjartition wall (see Fig. 128).. 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
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