. Plant studies; an elementary botany. Botany. 276 PLANT STUDIES large one, and contains a great variety of forms. All of them, however, produce spores in asci, but the asci are not always inclosed by an ascocarp. Here belong the common blue mould {Penicillium) found on bread, fruit, etc., in which stage the branching chains of conidia are very con- spicuous (Fig. 243); the truffle-fungi, upon whose subter-. Fig. 243. Penicillium, a common mould : A, mycelium with numerous branching sporophores bearing conidia ; B, apex of a sporophore enlarged, showing branch- ing and chains of conidia.—After
. Plant studies; an elementary botany. Botany. 276 PLANT STUDIES large one, and contains a great variety of forms. All of them, however, produce spores in asci, but the asci are not always inclosed by an ascocarp. Here belong the common blue mould {Penicillium) found on bread, fruit, etc., in which stage the branching chains of conidia are very con- spicuous (Fig. 243); the truffle-fungi, upon whose subter-. Fig. 243. Penicillium, a common mould : A, mycelium with numerous branching sporophores bearing conidia ; B, apex of a sporophore enlarged, showing branch- ing and chains of conidia.—After Bhefeld. ranean mycelia ascocarps develop which are known as " truffles "; the black fungi, which form the diseases known as " black knot" of the plum and cherry, the " ergot" of rye (Fig. 244), and many black wart-like growths upon the bark of trees ; other forms causing " witches'-brooms " (ab- normal growths on various trees), "peach curl,*' etc., the cup-fungi (Figs. 245, 246), and the edible morels (Fig. 247).. 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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