FUNGI.These are common parasitical plants, originating in the production of copious filamentous threads, called the mycelium, or spawn.

In this country, gardeners provide themselves with what is called spawn, either from the old manure of cucumber-beds, or purchase it from those whose business it is to propagate it.

He showed us the inoculation and culture room for tissue culture as well as the ultraviolet tube where the mother spawn is prepared.

Some of the students took spawn-filled bottles home.

If it is yellow, it means that the spawn is old.

Any other coloured patches seen on the spawn signify contaminant fungi in the spawn.

Mushroom spawn should then be spread over it.

Then another 10 cm layer of straw, over which the spawn should be spread and so on till one reaches the top of the bag.

I say I'll break that spawn's neck!

Strange creatures, the spawn of the rotting sea, for which the Mariner has no name.

The pleasant night-sounds are begun; the hylas are uttering their shrill peep from the meadows, mingled soon with hoarser toads, who take to the water at this season to deposit their spawn.

One may learn much, it is true, of the wonders of nature in the dead time of the year by watching the great trout on the spawn beds as they pile up the gravel day by day, and store up beautiful, transparent ova, of which but a ten-thousandth part will live to replenish the stock for future years.

To begin with, we had chicken soup and plovers' eggs, then swallows' nests cut in threads, stewed spawn of crab, sparrow gizzards, roast pig's feet and sauce, mutton marrow, fried sea slug, shark's finvery gelatinous; finally bamboo shoots in syrup, and water lily roots in sugar, all the most out-of-the-way dishes, watered by Chao Hing wine, served warm in metal tea urns.

At the latter end of the year, that is, the spawning season, the large trouts (which are become very loose and flabby) take to the small brooks to deposit their spawn; after which they return to the rivers.

I should observe, that at the "back end" of the year, immensely large trouts may be caught, which come up to spawn; but they are generally, when caught, immediately thrown into their element again, as they are worth nothing, on account of the looseness of their flesh.

You were hatched by a hen, as the saying is, but you came of the spawn of a cockatrice.

Sometimes he saw the waters break and gleam at the leap of a mighty salmonthe king fish of the North on his spring rush to the headwaters where he would spawn and dieand often the canoe sent flocks of waterfowl into flight.

By tracing in this manner every word to its original, and not admitting, but with great caution, any of which no original can be found, we shall secure our language from being overrun with cant, from being crowded with low terms, the spawn of folly or affectation, which arise from no just principles of speech, and of which, therefore, no legitimate derivation can be shown.

SEE Dana, Forest C. WILLOUGHBY, BARRETT. Spawn of the North.

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Spawn of the north.

Being a woman of few phrases, she repeated these as often as she had occasion for speech, and divided the world simply into two classes: two or three individuals, including herself, were human beings; the rest of mankind she denounced, in a voice which shook the walls, as spawn.

One does not like to be called spawn.

To the instinct which leads the salmon to ascend rivers for the purpose of depositing its spawn, is attributable the settlement of all north-eastern Siberia.

But if my husband's wrong continueth, Then I myself, in all my married years, A sinner was and not a wife, our son Is but a misborn bastard-spawn, a shame Unto himself, and sore disgrace to us.