Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1905 — Rings of Fungus Growth. [ARTICLE]

Rings of Fungus Growth.

* Before people studied nature to learn the truth, and when they delighted in all sorts of fancies, it was claimed that rings of fungus growths ! were caused by the dancing of fairies, by a thunderbolt entering the ground, or by the work of moles. Various othler equally absurd explanations have been given. Now we know that the Irst fungus plant growing from a [pore takes from the soil under and pear it all or most of the special food that the plant requires. Only the spores from this plant that fall just outside the exhausted soil will find good fungus food, and so the circle of successive growths widens r because only the spores outside of the ring can find food.—St. Nicholas.