Fungi: Their Nature and Uses
Fungi: Their Nature and Uses, published in 1875 as the fifteenth volume of the International Scientific Series and edited by the Reverend M. J. Berkeley, is Mordecai Cubitt Cooke's introduction to a branch of botany then little known to general readers. In fourteen chapters he treats the nature and structure of fungi, their classification, their uses as food and in industry, notable phenomena such as fairy rings and luminous fungi, the spore and its dissemination, germination and growth, sexual reproduction and polymorphism, the influence of fungi on plants, animals and man, including the potato disease, their habitats, cultivation and geographical distribution, and the collection and preservation of specimens. Cooke was the leading British mycologist of his day. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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