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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...

Excerpt from Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: What to Eat and What to AvoidStood 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

Excerpt from Grevillea, Vol. 15: A Quarterly Record of Cryptogamic Botany and Its Literature, 1886-87Gen. 2. Nectria, Fries - Perithecia free, caespitose, some times seated ou conidia-bearing stroma. Sporidia oblong.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-art tec...

Excerpt from British Fresh-Water Algæ, Vol. 1: Exclusive of Desmidieæ and DiatomaceæThe historical portion of this introduction may be speedily summarized by dividing it into three epochs of about forty years each, the first being limited by the publication of Dillwyn's Confervae, the second by Hassall's fresh-water Algae, and the third by the present work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic b...

Excerpt from Grevillea, Vol. 17: A Quarterly Record of Cryptogamic Botany and Its Literature, 1888-89Appendix, containing revised diagnoses of the Hymenomycetes in Cooke's Handbook, paged separately, in continuation pp. 257 to 312.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...

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 Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Vol. 19: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureThis is all the more difficult when the thoughts to be expressed are sincere - when he really does wish to express his deep sense of gratitude all round - to the kindly forbearance of his readers, and particularly to the help-meets who so readily and generously spring up all round, to answer questions, solve diffic...

Excerpt from Handbook of British Fungi: With Full Descriptions of All the Species, and Illustrations of the GeneraI am conscious that I have not produced a perfect work. Pursuing the study of Fungi as a recreation in the intervals of the daily business of life, it was no easy task to prepare and arrange the descriptions of nearly three thousand plants, compare specimens and figures, and measure their spores. It would be presumption to suppose ...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Vol. 20: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureEach article will embody a note of the conditions necessary to arrange the subject most favourable for good observation, and particularly for drawing.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 imp...

Excerpt from Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms: A Popular History of Entomogenous Fungi, or Fungi Parasitic Upon InsectsThere are four groups under which the fungi para sitie upon insects would primarily arrange them selves, and these, in the order of their importance.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 histori...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, 1867: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureSuch are a few of the ideas which arise upon this subject, most of which have had the test of success applied to them, and have stood it well. Imperfect as they are, they may suggest to some a course of action as yet new to them', while others may, from their own experience, add further hints, which may prove yet more...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Vol. 23: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureEntertaining this idea, we have endeavoured to widen the boundaries Of the subjects under discussion. Natural Science has a-very extensive cast-net, and we want to get as many fishes under as it can hold. If there is any particular group of new fishes it is desirable to catch, we shall always be glad if our readers...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureAn insect, allied to the Tachina, has been found in Europe to be the most formidable foe of the hive bee, sometimes producing the well-known disease called foul-brood, which 'is analogous to the typhus fever of man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www...

Excerpt from Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould: An Introduction to the Study of Microscopic FungiHE third edition of this Work having for some time been out of print, and the demands of the public encouraging.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-art technology to ...

Excerpt from Handbook of British Hepaticæ: Containing Descriptions and Figures of the Indigenous Species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia, and AnthocerosThe splendid monograph of "British Jungermanniæ" published by Sir W. J. Hooker, in 1816, was the first independent work on the Hepaticæ published in this country, although many species were figured in Smith and Sowerby's English Botany, 1790-1814. After that time no attempt was made at the ...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Vol. 24: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureTwenty-Four years have elapsed since this Magazine was founded by the genial publisher whose name it still bears. It is a long life for so popular a serial as Science-Gossip, but has there been any flagging in its vitality? Many honoured names, both in amateur and professional science, have helped to build up its w...

Excerpt from Freaks and Marvels of Plant Life, Or Curiosities of VegetationText-books remind us of the importance of the vegetable world in its relationship to the animal. They also illustrate the grandeur and beauty which the plant has conferred on the world. It is difficult to form any adequate conception of the vast extent and unlimited variety of vegetable life. All we can do is to pick up here and there some object of special interest, ga...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureThe nests of the Termites, or White Ants, are very common in India, but although so common, there is not one person in a thousand who has seen the internal economy of one of these wonderful abodes. I had often wished to do so, and although I had resided very many years in the country, during most of which I had studied natu...

Excerpt from Hardwicke's Science-Gossip, Vol. 26: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of NatureNother year has come and gone, and once more we find ourselves brought face to face with our readers in the publica.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 ...