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DURING the last autumn I studied very carefully the colouring-matters occurring in such fungi as I was able to find in my own district. For the correct specific determination of many of them I am much inbebted to Mr. M. C. Cooke. Though the number examined was small, compared with the total number of British species, it was sufficient to lead to some interesting conclusions, and at the same time to point out the necessity of the examination of many more, which so far have not fallen under my notice. It therefore appears to me better to postpone the description of the individual colouring-matters until I can include a greater number, and compare them as a whole with those found in algæ, lichens, and other natural orders; but at the same time it may be well to give a short general account of some of the conclusions to which I have been led by the facts already observed.
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SORBY, H. On the Colouring-Matters Found in Fungi . Nature 5, 298 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005298a0
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