Vegetation Below
The Graphic 28 September 1878: 309
Source: Internet Archive web version of a copy in the University of Illinois Library.
“In those parts of wet mines where the air currents do not travel, the growth of fungus is of fungus is often very remarkable. In this instance the timber supports of the roof are almost completely covered with a substance of the most delicate whiteness resembling nothing so much as a quantity of finely carded wool. It is, however, of such frailty that at the merest touch it collapses” (319).
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