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Excerpt from Rust, Smut, Mildew, & Mould: An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic Fungi HE third edition of this Work having for some time been out of print, and the demands of the public encouraging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Fungi - Their Nature, Influence, And Uses is a comprehensive treatise on the topic of fungi, written by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke and originally published in 1888. When people think of fungi, they usually immediately think of poisonous mushrooms of harmful bacteria. Contrary to popular belief, relatively few mushrooms and fungi are actually harmful, and the beneficial properties and applications of fungi are fascinatingly varied and surprising. Th...

Excerpt from Our Reptiles and Batrachians: A Plain and Easy Account of the Lizards, Snakes, Newts, Toads, Frogs and Tortoises Indigenous to Great Britain Later years, and almost confined myself to plants, but in a foolish moment, perhaps, the old hankering to have a word or two with one's first love has come over me, and resulted in this humble account of Our Reptiles. I make no pretensions to the production of anything more than a popular vo...

Excerpt from British Fresh-Water Algæ, Vol. 1: Exclusive of Desmidieæ and Diatomaceæ "Fresh-Water Algæ" is confessedly an artificial arrangement which demands apology, but can scarcely receive justification. The only excuse which can be offered is, that it serves the purpose of those for whom the present work was written, namely, the Microscopists who desire some acquaintance with the organisms met with in their excursions to ponds and ditche...

Excerpt from Romance of Low Life Amongst Plants: Facts and Phenomena of Cryptogamic VegetationHE entire vegetable world of great and small, from the Australian gum tree to the smallest microbe, is divisible, for scientific purposes, into two primary sections, which are termed respectively the Phanerogamia, or ¿owering plants, and the Crypto gamia, or ¿owerless plants, but it is only with the latter that we are called upon to deal. It may be pr...

Excerpt from Fungoid Pests of Cultivated PlantsSome introductory remarks are necessary as an explanation of the main facts in the life-history of some Of the principal parasites to be recorded, and thus prevent their subsequent repetition when each species is under consideration. Thus iteration will be avoided and space economised where there is so little to spare.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

Excerpt from Grevillea, 1878-9, Vol. 7: A Quarterly Record of Cryptogamic Botany and Its LiteratureOn wood of Pinus contorta. Sierra Nevada, 8000 feet. No. 1014.Allied to S. Apiculata, but with larger and coarser sporidia, the external appearance is also different.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historica...

Excerpt from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: What to Eat and What to Avoid Stood that there are no general rules, capable of universal application, whereby edible may at once be distinguished from poisonous fungi. Our task would be an easy one if such a royal road could be discovered, but unfortunately every effort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks...

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Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature By rustic seat and garden bower There's not a leaf, or shrub, or ¿ower, Blossom, or bush, so sweet as thee, Lowly, but fragrant Honey-tree. By stately halls we see thee not, But find thee near the lowly cot, Or latticed porch by humble door Thou leanest, with thy honeyed store, Dropping, from thy bee-bosomed ¿owers, Sweet...

Excerpt from Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould: An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic Fungi HE third edition of this Work having for some time been out of print, and the demands of the public encouraging. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techno...

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Excerpt from Grevillea, Vol. 3: A Quarterly Record of Cryptogamic Botany and Its Literature, 1874-5Perithecia minute, arranged round the margin of the black st?oma sporophores slender, spores shortly fusiform, trinucleate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

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