The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

Fungus, or Mushroom

3 pages in this part of Wonders and Curiosities.

Chap. XXXVI

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING VEGETABLES. - (Concluded.) If to this lower planet we advert, Seat of our birth and nurture, proofs abound Of…

Fungus, or Mushroom

By fungus, we mean the mushroom tribe. The ancients called them the children of the earth, to indicate the obscurity of their origin. The…

Curiosities Respecting Vegetables (Ceived seeds in the Fungus)

ceived seeds in the Fungus perosus crassus magnus of John Bauhin: the little round bodies that are found in the pezizæ and belvellæ, at…

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