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That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose and obtained from certain lichens and fungi. Called also trehalose. [Written also mykose.]

A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.

The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification. Henslow.

A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery. Henslow.

A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.

A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.

ant is able to organize carbohydrates. All plants without a chlorophyll apparatus, as the fungi, must be parasitic or saprophytic. --Pho`to*syn*thet"ic (#), a. -- Pho`to*syn*thet"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

A large, important class of parasitic or saprophytic fungi, the algal or algalike fungi. The plant body ranges from an undifferentiated mass of protoplasm to a well-developed and much- branched mycelium. Reproduction is mainly sexual, by the formation of conidia or sporangia; but the group shows every form of transitio…

The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

A genus of fungi having the under surface full of minute pores; also, any fungus of this genus.

A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.

In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.

A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.

A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.…

A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See Schizophyta, in the Supplement.