Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 338
catter the tinydust-like particles or spores, justas flowering plants do their seeds.This is the mission of our mush-rooms, for what we see aboveground is only the fruiting body—the real body of the plant liesunderground. Let us follow oneof those minute spores down in the rich, moistearth. It… … THAT BROWN-LOOKINGCORNUCOPIA. (Craterelles cornucopioides.) points the threads mat together,forming tiny knobs which increase in size andpush upward until they break the soil and lookout upon our world, where they soon becomethe familiar parasol-shaped mush-room. How strikingly differentare fungi…
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