[110] “The facility with which these floccose threads are injured, and their connection destroyed, explains,” says Vittadini, “the difficulty of transplanting funguses with success.”
[111] The great rapidity with which these wonderful changes succeed each other in funguses with a volva, is widely different from what occurs in those that have none. Thus the Morel takes thirty-one days, Geasters six, and many Tubers twelve months for their full development: so that “To come up like a mushroom” is a proverb with limitations.
[112] When the base is formed before the receptacle, the fibres are continuous; but when the receptacle has been formed first, as the fibres of the last cannot be transmitted through those already formed, these two parts remain distinct.
[113] In the first instance the fungus is called annulate, in the second cortinate.
[114] i. e. when these happen to be of different hues originally, the fragments of the veil being in some places covered by those of the wrapper, in others naked.
[115] Raii Syn. 2.
[116] λευκὸς, white, and σπόρος, a seed.
[117] Ag. ovoides (Bull.), which is white, and Ag. Cæsareus (Scop.), which is red, with yellow gills, belong to this division.
[118] λεπὶς, a scale.
[119] Armilla, a ring.