. 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. 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 con
. 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. 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. White mould on dead fly. 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 Marshall, Nina L. (Nina Lovering). New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
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