Science of Plant Life, a High School Botany Treating of the Plant And Its Relation to the Environment
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Edible forms are cultivated on a large scale in caves and abandoned mines, and on a smaller scale in cellars. Wild forms should not be eaten unless they are gathered by persons competent to distinguish the different species, many of which are similar in appearance but very different in their effects when eaten. The mushrooms as they are gathered are only the fruiting bodies of the fimgi. The real plant consists of bundles of filaments extending in all directions throughout a large mass Fig. 159.... Stages in the development of the common edible pink-gilled mush- room. Note the underground vegetative body of the plant. Bacteria and Fungi 269 of soil on which the fruiting bodies appear. It may take several years for the underground vegetative part of the fungus to develop, while the fruiting bodies may develop in a few days. It is the enlargement of the fruiting bodies that per- sons have in mind when they speak of " mushroom growth." This expression leaves out of accoimt the months or years of growth during which the materials were accumulated for the sudden production of the fruiting body.
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