Excerpt from Grevillea, Vol. 13: A Quarterly Record of Botany and Its LiteratureThis neat and useful little volume makes its appearance just at the time when it is wanted, is amply illustrated, and seems to be carefully and judiciously prepared. We note with satisfaction the announcement in the preface of the sources of information and assistance. It is always a mistake to ignore such help, as is often done by young authors, and hence we commend Mr. Grove for taking the precaution to disarm criticism on this point. The organisms included in this Synopsis are acknowledged to be difficult and obscure, so that some little courage was necessary to make the attempt, and we congratulate the author on his success. Although we fear that we must be included with those who doubt the majority of these organisms being autonomous Fungi at all, yet no other course was open but to treat them as such, in the present condition of our knowledge, and until the contrary is proven. The nonsense which Hallier and Co. Tried to introduce into the science at one time threatened to bring the study of the Schizo mycetes into contempt, and we quite appreciate the way in which our author has summarily disposed of them. Of course we may hold a different opinion, or at least suspend our judgment, concern ing a small number of the species introduced into this volume, but are by no means disposed to be dogmatic. From the conclusion of the paragraph on page 80, we infer that a more congenial feeling is now predominant in certain quarters than we have recognized in the past. Referring to Brefeld, it states, and the present long and tedious treatise is filled ad nauseam with peevish contentious dis potations against De Bary and Van Tieghem, and all others who differ from his opinions. There is only one line in the present volume that we should have preferred to have seen excluded for the rest we must welcome it, not only for the absence of all peevish contentious disputations, but for the service it will render to the mycologist and the microscopist, to whom we recom mend it as essential to the completeness of even a small library of practical manuals for daily use.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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.