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Excerpt from Blights of the Wheat and Their Remedies, Vol. 1
Importance of the subject - Prevalent ignorance respecting it, and consequences - Anxiety of the agriculturists for the aid of science Providential checks to the ravages of the corn-pests - Remarks - The wonders revealed respecting these minute enemies of the wheat, by the microscope - Parasit'es - Fungi - Their botanical character - Their normal mode of gerinina tion and growth - Their various forms - The orders into which they seem capable of being reduced - The names Of these or ders explained-eproperties of fungi - Their places of growth - Speculations concerning them - Why called the scavengers of nature - Exceptions - Question as to the conditions of their development-wonderful instance of an 'animal being r'epla'ced by a fungus - Analogy from this retrograde step in creation - 1 Mycelium defined and described - Plan of this volume. 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 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.
