For even if we may be able to replenish them when they dry up, would it not be better to delay their Dessication?
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
At another time, I had with a scalpel split vertically many fungi in order to hasten their Dessication; the evening of the same day, the surface of all these cuts was phosphorescent, but in many of these pieces of fungi the luminosity was limited to the cut surface which remained exposed to the air; the flesh beneath was unchanged.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Dessication in an ordinary temperature seemed sufficient to destroy the faculty of germinating in twenty-four hours, when the conidia had been removed from the leaves on which they were produced.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke