From:
Worthington George Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 201
Summary:
Reports a fossil fungus, complete with fossil zoospores, within the vascular bundles of a Lepidodendron from the Coal Measures. The genus is Pythium and it appears no different from living species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project