A plain easy account of British fungi : with descriptions of the esculent and poisonous species.

  • Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A plain easy account of British fungi : with descriptions of the esculent and poisonous species. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    whether distributed over gills, tubes, pores, or fissures, is the most prominent object. Hence these are called Hymenomycetes, a word compounded of liymenium and mycetes, the latter being the Greek term for fungi: so that these might be called liymenium -fungi, of which I the common mushroom may be accepted as an example. | In the second family the liymenium is inclosed in a ! peridium, or case, which seldom ruptures before the ; spores are ripe. To this family the name of Gastero- j mycetes is given y from gaster a belly, because the hy- j menium, with all the reproductive bodies, are inclosed J in a kind of uterus or womb, from whence they are j expelled when mature. Of this family the puff-balls ] maybe taken as an example. In the third family, which contains very minute individuals, the spores are the most conspicuous bodies ; the name employed is Coniomycetes, derived from the Greek konis, signifying dust, on account of their dust- like nature, of which mildew and smut may be taken as types. In the fourth family the spores are small and in- conspicuous compared to the threads upon which they are borne, and which latter are the distinctive features of the family. Hence it is termed Hyphomycetes, from the Greek word hypha, a thread ; wherefore they might be called thread-like fungi. Of this family blue-mould may be taken as an example. Having now briefly characterized the four families of Sporiferous fungi, we will return to the first of these, and examine it more minutely.