Botany - Fungi, Lichens, and Briophyta! - 15 Slides

This slide set proposes very diffuse ad common vegetals, sometimes intrusive, like fungi and molds. Others are more unobtrusive, if colonize inhospitable environments, like lichens that live on rocks. Some of them are really unpleasant like molds that can spread out of control. Many people owe their lives to them like Penicillium, one of the first antibiotics.

You get 15 prepared slides and 5 blank ones that come in a sturdy and cool looking wooden case. Plus, it's in 8 languages; English, Italian, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek!

1. Rhizopus, bread mold, developing sporangia
2. Rhizopus nigricans w.m.
3. Spurred rye sporae
4. Penicillium w.m
5. Penicillium, conidia on conidiophora
6. Aspergillus w.m.
7. Aspergillus, conidia on conidiophora
8. Saccaromyces, budding, w.m.
9. Yeast dividing, w.m.
10. Peziza, cup fungus, section of apothecium with asci
11. Ustilago tritici, loose smut of wheat
12. Ustilago zeae, com. smut, section of pustule showing developing chlamydospores
13. Coprinus, section showing basidia and spores
14. Lichen, section vegetative portion of thallus
15. Lichen, section of apothecium

w.m. = whole mount