. Fungi; their nature, influence, and uses;. Fungi. STEUCTUEB. 25. Fig. 6. —Catocera viscosa. ture Las been specially illustrated by M. Tulasne,* tlirough tliu common species, Tremella mesenterica. This latter is of a fine golden yellow colour, and rather large size. It is uniformly composed throughout of a colourless mucilage, with no appreciable texture, in which are distributed Very fine, diversely branched and anastomosing filaments. Towards the snrface, the ultimate branches of tbis filamentous network give birth, both at their summits and laterally, to globular cells, which ac- quire a c
. Fungi; their nature, influence, and uses;. Fungi. STEUCTUEB. 25. Fig. 6. —Catocera viscosa. ture Las been specially illustrated by M. Tulasne,* tlirough tliu common species, Tremella mesenterica. This latter is of a fine golden yellow colour, and rather large size. It is uniformly composed throughout of a colourless mucilage, with no appreciable texture, in which are distributed Very fine, diversely branched and anastomosing filaments. Towards the snrface, the ultimate branches of tbis filamentous network give birth, both at their summits and laterally, to globular cells, which ac- quire a comparatively large size. These cells are filled with a protoplasm, to which the plant owes its orange colour. When thoy have attained their normal dimensions, they elongate at the summit into two, three, or four distinct, thick, obtuse tubes, into which the protoplasm gradually passes. The development of these tubes is unequal and not simultaneous, so that one will often attain its full dimensions, equal, per- haps, to tliree or four times the dia- meter of the generative cell, whilst the others are only just appearing. ^^S^SnflF^' By degrees, as each tube attains its full size, it is attenuated into a fine point, the extremity of which swells into a spheroidal cell, which ulti- mately becomes a spore. Sometimes these tubes, or spicules, send out one or lateral branches, each terminated by a spore. These spores (about '006 to "008 mm. diameter) are smooth, and deposit themselves, like a fine white dust, on the surface of the Tremella and on its matrix. M. Leveillef was of opinion that. 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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), b. 1825-; Berkeley, M. J. (Miles Joseph), 1803-1889. New York, D. Appleton and Co.
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