fungi

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Fun"gi   (?), n. pl.
(Bot.) A group of thallophytic plants of low organization, destitute of chlorophyll, in which reproduction is mainly accomplished by means of asexual spores, which are produced in a great variety of ways, though sexual reproduction is known to occur in certain Phycomycetes, or so-called algal fungi.
 &fist; The Fungi appear to have originated by degeneration from various alg&aelig;, losing their chlorophyll on assuming a parasitic or saprophytic life. By some they
are divided into the subclasses Phycomycetes, the lower or algal fungi; the Mesomycetes, or intermediate fungi; and the Mycomycetes, or the higher fungi; by others into the Phycomycetes; the Ascomycetes, or sac-spore
fungi; and the Basidiomycetes, or
basidial-spore fungi.
 
Fun"gi   (?), n. pl.
(Bot.) See Fungus.

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