. The mushroom book. A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner Fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. The Relation of Fungi to Other Plants being forced to a change of form which will better suit their changed surroundings. The novice sees nothing in the brown, or even in the highly coloured, fungi to war- rant his calling them plants. They are to him "just toadstools ;" for green colouring matter —his first criterion for plants—is not there, and, moreover, there is noth- ing in their shape which suggests to hi
. The mushroom book. A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner Fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. The Relation of Fungi to Other Plants being forced to a change of form which will better suit their changed surroundings. The novice sees nothing in the brown, or even in the highly coloured, fungi to war- rant his calling them plants. They are to him "just toadstools ;" for green colouring matter —his first criterion for plants—is not there, and, moreover, there is noth- ing in their shape which suggests to him the plants with which he is familiar. The snow- white Indian pipe lacks the green of most plants, but that does not rule it for him out of the plant world ; for although it. Moss {Dicranum scopariuni) (natural size) is colourless, and depends upon other plants for food, still it has a flower form and produces a seed-box with well-devel- oped seeds. Fungi, however, to any but the close student must seem quite unrelated to all normal plant forms. But the botanist, by a study of their structure, finds that they all grow from microscopic, dust- like particles, which differ from true seeds in consisting of but one or a few cells, and in having no embryo plant in them as true seeds have. He recognises their position in the kingdom of living things, and classes them as spore-bearing plants, lower than the group of mosses, those dainty plants which delight every one with their graceful- ness, and which bear their spores in tiny cap- sules or boxes set up on slender stems. By studying their life history he decides that they are degenerate members of the low- est group—the algae—and that they have fostered the habit of feeding on material constructed by green plants, instead of con- structing food material for themselves, and have, in consequence, 8. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
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