Show millions million of fungi reft all the energies of the fungus plant seem to be directed to the production of germs for propagating its kind theil number is often almost incalculable doubtless observed that the common puff ball when mature is filled with a fine dust and this consists entirely of spores corresponding to seeds which are eventually diffused in the air b by 11 the bursting of the puff puffball ball ilasin gle ele puff ball more than of them have been counted and when these minute bodies are once set afloat in the tha atmosphere they are distributed abroad over an indefinite space being so small that it la is difficult to conceive of a place from which they could be excluded their astonishing fertility and rapidity of growth are among the most able abla characteristics of this vegetable tribe interview in washington star |