Introduction to the study of fungi : their organography, classification, and distribution for the use of collectors . nus,Thamnomyces, the carpophore is very long andthin, often like horse hair, running amongst dead leaves andvegetable debris. It is notable how some of the simplest forms of carpophoreare repeated in different groups of Fungi far removed fromeach other in structure. This is thecase where the whole Fungus is club-shaped, as it is in Clavaria pistillaris,and again, even as to colour, in Xylariainvoluta. Others of a smaller size, butof a like form, will be found in Clavarialigula,
Introduction to the study of fungi : their organography, classification, and distribution for the use of collectors . nus,Thamnomyces, the carpophore is very long andthin, often like horse hair, running amongst dead leaves andvegetable debris. It is notable how some of the simplest forms of carpophoreare repeated in different groups of Fungi far removed fromeach other in structure. This is thecase where the whole Fungus is club-shaped, as it is in Clavaria pistillaris,and again, even as to colour, in Xylariainvoluta. Others of a smaller size, butof a like form, will be found in Clavarialigula, LeptoglossiLni olivaceum ; Xylariarhopaloides; Geoglossum hirsutum, andHypocrca ophioglossoidcs. No one can doubt, after tracing thegradations of form in Xylaria, that thespherical carpophores, not only inXylaria, but also in Daldinia, Glaziella, Sarcooiylon, and theSpTiaeroxylon section of Hypoxylon, are of the same character,and have a similar purpose to the foregoing (Fig. 15). Possiblythe globose forms may primarily serve to expose the largestsurface of immersed receptacles to the light, rather than elevate. Fig. 15. —Globose stroma ofHypoxylon. 30 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF FUNGI them from darkness into light, as was seen to be the firstfunction of the long - stemmed carpophores. Everythingindicates in the Pyrenomycetes that there is some necessityfor exposing the fructifying surface to the light; whether oncarpophores or effused in a stroma, only one stratum ofperithecia is the rule, a double series the very rare exception. CHAPTEE IV THE KECEPTACLE Having described the mycelium, already designated as thevegetative Fungus, and which is always present, we passedto an outgrowth of the mycelium (sometimes suppressed),which, as the carpophore, is destined to support the is the latter which contains the fructification, or, in thecase of naked fruits, supports the fructification itself It maybe urged that the receptacle is part and parcel of the fructifica-ti
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