Outlines of British fungology : containing characters of above a thousand species of fungi, and a complete list of all that have been described as natives of the British Isles / by M.J. Berkeley.

Date:
1860
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Credit: Outlines of British fungology : containing characters of above a thousand species of fungi, and a complete list of all that have been described as natives of the British Isles / by M.J. Berkeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    in small quantities. When in abundance it is very beautiful, and in hot weather it may be cultivated with great ease on rice paste. The growth of these productions is, however, very capricious, and I have this autumn in vain attempted to cul- tivate it, which is the more provoking, as its real affinities and structure are at present very obscure.* It may be added, in conclusion, that the Fungi which attack animal substances are for the most part far from nice in their choice of a place of growth, but some which produce disease in animals are attached to particular insects, and a few which grow on decaying hoofs, horns, bones, feathers, wool, or hairs, are never found in any other situations. Leather for a long time seemed to be exempt from any Fungi save the commonest species of Mould, but Messrs. Broome and Currey have lately found a pretty Ascobolus on this substance when exposed to decay, * Together with the blood-rain, gelatinous spots of a bright yellow, blue, pink, grey, white, etc., often appear on the rice paste, identical in structure with the red. The matter which appears on meat in damp weather seems to be similar. The whole subject requires further investigation. D
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