. Fig. 161.—Fuligo variaiis. The Plasmodium has crept over the soil in a plant-pot, and formed its mass of spores, which are covered with a yellow crust of lime. Reduced. ous; its Plasmodium often creeps up the stems of living grasses, and forms spore-masses up to 2-3 inches in length and an inch in diameter. These are at first covered with a white crust, which soon falls away, exposing the soot-like mass of spores, which are globose, minutely warted, dusky purple or brownish, 10-13 /x diameter. When produced in considerable quantity, the dense masses of spores are said to injure vegetation by
. Fig. 161.—Fuligo variaiis. The Plasmodium has crept over the soil in a plant-pot, and formed its mass of spores, which are covered with a yellow crust of lime. Reduced. ous; its Plasmodium often creeps up the stems of living grasses, and forms spore-masses up to 2-3 inches in length and an inch in diameter. These are at first covered with a white crust, which soon falls away, exposing the soot-like mass of spores, which are globose, minutely warted, dusky purple or brownish, 10-13 /x diameter. When produced in considerable quantity, the dense masses of spores are said to injure vegetation by a process of suffoca- tion. It is not a parasite. Instances are also on record where horses and other
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