. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ough accom-panied by an organisation totallydifferent; and it is this amongstother circumstances which makesit so absolutely necessary to ex-amine into the intimate structureof the works of the creation, be-fore venturing to pronounce upontheir proper place in the of these galls have beenfigured by Mr. Curtis in his in-teresting entomological articles inthe Gardeners Chronicle ; such, for example, as Oak-spangles, produced by Diplolepislenticularis; Oak-currants,
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ough accom-panied by an organisation totallydifferent; and it is this amongstother circumstances which makesit so absolutely necessary to ex-amine into the intimate structureof the works of the creation, be-fore venturing to pronounce upontheir proper place in the of these galls have beenfigured by Mr. Curtis in his in-teresting entomological articles inthe Gardeners Chronicle ; such, for example, as Oak-spangles, produced by Diplolepislenticularis; Oak-currants, byCy-nips Quercus pedunculi, WooUy-oak galls, which owe their originto the puncture of Cj-nips Quer-cus ramuli ; Elm-galls, broughton by the attacks of the Aphis ;in the case of galls, however, it isbut a superficial examinationwhich can possibly deceive, for Fig. XIII.—Erineum .luglandis. Fig. XIV.—Erineum botrjocephalum iCordn). Fig. XV.—Oak Spangles.—3. Upper side ; 4. under side ; 2. silk button galls ; 6. a section of one witha lar^a in the interior. See Curtis in Gardeners Chronicle, , p. Fig. XV. 32 FUNGALES. [Thallogens. nature are the Gu^pes v^g^tantes of the West Indies ; the Muscardine, which is sodestructive to silkworms, and on which so many excellent ^Memoirs have been written ;the mould, which so often causes the death of the common house-fly in autumn ; andabove all, the curious instances which have been recorded of the development of mouldsin the mucous membrane of the viscera of veitebrate animals, and in certain cutaneousdisorders m man. Mouldmess, for instance, has been fomid by on the internal surfaceof the au--cells of an Eider-duck while alive ; and Mr. Owen observed a similar growthin the lungs of a Flamingo.—Ann. Nat. Hist. viii. 230. Col. Montagu had previouslyremarked it in the same situation in the Scarp-duck.—lb. ix. 131. Gruby observed the even where the little grub which produced them has vanished, the total
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