Lloyd Mycological Writings V4.pdf - MykoWeb

of fungi, for we are taught to believe that fungi, having no chlorophyl
and not being able to decompose carbon dioxide, must derive nutrition
from organic carbon compounds. De Bary divides fungi into
Saprophytes and Parasites, but these genera, growing loosely attached
on living branches which they apparently do not attack, surely do
not get their nutrition from their "hosts." There are other fungi,
Polyporus fruticum of the tropics and Radulum Ballouii of our own
flora, which seem to me to grow in about the same way.
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Fig. 773.
Polyporus papillatus.
Mycocitrus aurantium was well illustrated and described by
loeller, and it is not necessary to repeat its characters. The dried
Borneo is much paler (about light, ochraceous salmon of
n Ridgway)
Moeller s figure made from the fresh plant, and the specimens are
arger, one of them measuring four inches in diameter. The spores and
perithecia are very similar to those of Hypocrea, in fact Mycocitrus
d aS a
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large HyP crea- The r
spores have a septum (two-
^ ), but it is often indistinct. They are hyaline, smooth, 4x6 mic.
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