2012, ISBN: 1130268608

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[EAN: 9781130268607], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: .is itervested and used by farmers as stable-straw. This is especially the case in hilly and moorland districts, where little or no wheat is grown and there is consequently no real straw to spare. The ground of the wood, however, changes more, perhaps, than anything. All vegetation seems to have died out. There is hardly anything left on the surface except decaying matter, most of which, of course, is charable. This time of the year is, therefore, the best for the study of fungi--better almost than the autumn. All forms of toadstools will be seen in the damp forest. What is a toadstool? Of course you know that it is a fungus. What part of a fungus is it? That question has probably not yet suggested itself to you. The toadstool is the fruit-part of a fungus. Pick up a toadstool. It has a stalk and an umbrella-shaped thing on the top. Underneath this flat upper part you will see a number of very fine bands, looking like strips of paper, stretching from the centre to the edge. If you have got hold of the ordinary field--that is, the edible--mushroom, draw a finger gently over the underside of the toadstool. Your finger will become dark brown. A very fine powder is formed on the sides of these 'strips of paper.' If this fine powder settles lown anywhere in a convenient place, it may produce new mushrooms after a time. This powder does not consist of seeds. Seeds, as you know, are formed in a quite different way, namely, inside flowers. This powder consists of small spores. Spores are very small round things, each of which can produce a new plant. I have already referred to the spores of the mosses and the ferns. The mushroom has long threads, which are searching for, and collecting food from, the charable matter in the soil. It would be useless for these delicat.<