Footnotes From the Page of Nature; Or, First Forms of Vegetation
Footnotes From the Page of Nature; Or, First Forms of Vegetation
Macmillan Hugh
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There is hardly a single substance on which some species or other of them may not, imder favourable circumstances, be found. As a general rule they all grow on dead and decaying organic matter, on the mouldering trunks and branches of trees and withered plants, and on the bones and droppings of animals. But they are also occasionally found on living trees, and on green leaves, and parts of plants that show no symptoms of decay. A large class called hypoder- yGoogk THE PAGE OF NA TUBE. 227 mous ...or entophytic ftingi spriiig from beneath the cuticle of living plants, and a considerable proportion of our flowering plants are affected with them — a different fungus being developed upon almost every species. Their minute sporules are either directly applied to the plants upon which they are found, entering by the sto- mata or breathing pores ; or they are taken up from the son by their seeds in the process of germinating, enter into their structure, circulate through their tissues, re- maining all the time in a dormant state, until at last, when the part which forms the most suitable nidus for them is developed, they suddenly appear upon it exter- nally in the form of patches or aggregations of black or coloured granules.
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