Excerpt from A Manual of Cryptogamic Botany: Adapted to the Requirements of the Science and Art Department

This work has been chiefly drawn up from my notes of Lectures delivered at Stockwell Training College, and the Public Library, Lavender Hill.

The material has been gathered from the most reliable sources, and frequent reference to Sachs' excellent Text Book, to De Bary's Comparative Morphology and Biology of the Fungi, and to the works of Strasburger, Bower, and Vines has been made.

The chief aim of the book has been to reduce to a concise form the life histories of the various plant organisms, detailed in the Advanced Syllabus of the Science and Art Department. The special difficulty of young students studying for this examination is a want of the necessary time to pick out from a host of others the special characters of the species intended for detailed study, this difficulty I have attempted to overcome, believing that when these types have been thoroughly mastered the larger works will be read with profit and pleasure.

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