Salt Lake Times | 1890-05-10 | Page 5 | Phosphorescent Toadstools

rhphorient Toadatwila. Varieties of fungi, or toadstools, as they are popularly called, which give out light iu a dark place havo been reported re-ported from Australia and other parts of the world. The appearance of this interesting in-teresting growth, as seen in Brazil, is described de-scribed by an English naturalist. Ono dark night, about the beginning of December, w hile passing along the streets, I observed some boys amusing themselves with some luminous object! which I at first supposed to be a kind of largo firelly, hut, on making inquiry, I found it to be a beautiful phosphorescent fungus, anc' was told that it grow abundantly abund-antly in the neighborhood, on the decay, tag leaves of a dwarf palm. Next day I obtained a great many specimens, and fount! them trt vnrv frnm fktia innl. inches and a half across. The whole plant gives out at night a bright, phosphorescent light, of a pale greenish hue, similar to that emitted by tho larger fireflies, or by the curious soft bodied marine animals. The light given out by a few of these fungi, in a dark room, was sufficient to read by. Youth's Companion.