Medical and economical botany : [Forming the third part of the 'The elements of botany'.].

  • John Lindley
Date:
1849
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Credit: Medical and economical botany : [Forming the third part of the 'The elements of botany'.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I'UNGALS. Lyooperdon. Tournefort. A globular, fleshy mass, eventually bursting and discharging a multitude of powdery spores. 1. L. (/mmaitjm Batsch.—(Common Puffball.) Fig. 10. Round, tapering to the base, covered with little rough warts. Hcihitat. Fields and meadows. Quality. Acts mechanically as a styptic, by means of its brown spores, 2. L. giganteum Batsch. Bovista giganieum Nees.—(Giant Puffball.) Oblong or roundish, white, very large, smooth, with the sliin cracking into angular spaces, pulpy at first, becoming dry. Habitat. Fields and plantations. Quality. Styptic. Uses. When dry, staunches slight wounds. The smoke stupifies bees. 16 17 18 ]<) 20 21 22 TuBURCiNiA. Fries.* Microscopic. Hollow granular oblong balls, collected in subcutaneous patches. 1. T. Scabies Berkolej.—(Potato Scab.) Pig. 23. Spots brown, oblong, becoming confluent; balls attached transversely to a short stipe. Habitat. Beneath the skin of the tuber of the Potato. Quality. Produces superficial cavities and pits, but is of no further injury. Magnified figures of: Fig. 16. Mucor mucedo ; 17. Aspergillus glaucus; 18. PeniciUium glaucum; 1!). Uredo Caries, as it appears when rubbed in water; 20. Puccinia Graminis; 21. Botrytis iufestans; 22. yiicidium Berberidis ; Tuburcinia Scabies. * A few species, neither medical nor economical, are here admittedifor the sake of the student, because tbe.v produce marked cftects upon the sources of our medicine or food.