[21] Sporendonema Muscæ.
[22] “When healthy caterpillars are placed within reach of a silkworm that has been destroyed by the Botrytis, they, too, contract the disease, and at last perish.”—Chambers’s Journal, October, 1845.
[23] A species of Polystrix is affected, whilst alive, with a parasitic kind of fungus, called Sphæria, which grows out of it, and feeds upon it.
[24] Several of the French surgeons have given recitals of cases where, on removal of the bandages from sore surfaces, they have found a collection of funguses growing upon them, generally about the size of the finger (Lemery); one of them adds, that having reapplied the wrappings, a second batch came out in the course of twenty-four hours, and this for several days consecutively.
[25] For an accurate description of these funguses, the reader is referred to the excellent work of Mr. Berkeley.
[26] These, beautiful, but fleeting as beauty’s blush, generally perish within a few hours; but I have seen some which, after a potting of 2000 years, retained their original hues unblemished, for they had been potted with the town of Pompeii, and are preserved with the other frescoes upon its walls.
[27] The Mitrati are not a very numerous class, of which the Morel may be taken as the type.
[28] The Cupulati, so called in consequence.
[29] A. piperatus.
[30] A. procerus.