Category: Science - Biology
THE first edition of this Work having for some time been out of print, and the demands of the public encouraging the publisher to proceed with a new edition, I have added, in a second Appendix, descriptions of all the species discovered in Britain since 1865, so far as they re...
IF, in offering a few practical suggestions, we either repeat ourselves, or communicate common-place hints, those who may know already all we shall essay to tell them will pleas...
12. CHAPTER XI.TWENTY years since, and some of these little pests were altogether unknown, whilst others were only recognized and partly understood by a few scientific men. During the period t...
5. CHAPTER IV.DR. WITHERING’S “Arrangement of British Plants” in 1818 reached its sixth edition. This is less than half a century ago, and yet the whole number of species of Fungi described i...
2. CHAPTER I.IN these latter days, when everyone who possesses a love for the marvellous, or desires a knowledge of some of the minute mysteries of nature, has, or ought to have, a microscop...
13. CHAPTER XII.NOTWITHSTANDING the inconvenience to ourselves of calling very different fungi by the same common name of “mildew,” the popular mind does not recognize the inconvenience, since...
9. CHAPTER VIII.UNFORTUNATELY, this group of fungi contains species but too well known for their ravages amongst graminaceous plants, especially the cereals. “Corn rust,” as it is generally cal...
10. CHAPTER IX.A QUARTER of a century ago, and all the fungi enumerated in the preceding and in the present and following chapters would have been arranged under three genera, called respectiv...
7. CHAPTER VI.ONE of the fungal diseases of corn long and widely known has obtained amongst agriculturists different appellations in different localities. In some it is the “smut,” in others...
11. CHAPTER X.ALLUSION has already been made to the important memoir recently published by Dr. de Bary. “White rusts” occupy a conspicuous position in that memoir, and the experiments therein...
4. CHAPTER III.BEFORE entering further and more fully upon the subject of this volume, it may be advisable to attempt an explanation of a phenomenon of no uncommon occurrence in many groups of...
6. CHAPTER V.FROM the twin-spored genus we pass to another, in which the spores are usually divided into three cells, and which, from this cause, has been named _Triphragmium_. Only one spec...
3. CHAPTER II.IN addition to their spore-bearing spots, lichens have for some time been known to possess other organs, termed _spermogones_, which are probably concerned more or less in the r...
8. CHAPTER VII.SOME of the microscopic fungi are the most unpromising and uninteresting objects to the naked eye which could well be imagined. No one would suppose that the black dust so profu...
1. Part I. HYMENOMYCETES, 1s. Part II. GASTEROMYCETES, CONIOMYCETES,THE first edition of this Work having for some time been out of print, and the demands of the public encouraging the publisher to proceed with a new edition, I have added, in a...