The same stump, if simply left to the action of the weather, might be half a century before it was fairly decayed. The appearance of such a fungus as Polyporus squamosus is the sure harbinger of speedy decay. Nor is the case much mended supposing vegetation... Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany - Page 241by Miles Joseph Berkeley - 1857 - 604 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1869 - 622 pages
...half a century before it was fairly decayed. The appearance of such a fungus as Polyporus sgvamosus is the sure harbinger of speedy decay. Nor is the...a host equally fatal to some individual species.' * * Berkeley's Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany, p. 239. The destructive effects of fungi are thus... | |
| Massachusetts. State Board of Health - Massachusetts - 1872 - 404 pages
...expense of, the living tissues of other plants, and, as Berkeley says, although they may not prey upon cells full of vital energy, life is so depressed by...tissues already diseased, that the healthiest soon fall victims to the deadly encroachment of- the spreading mycelium. Upon the higher organization of animal... | |
| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Cryptogams - 1893 - 348 pages
...putrescence and fungi ; 1 MJ Berkeley, "Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany," p. 239. (London, 1857.) the one, in fact, being frequently the handmaid of...a host equally fatal to some individual species." In addition to the foregoing, it is scarcely necessary to do more than mention the name of the " dry... | |
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