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THE concluding sentence of your notice (vol. xvii. p. 128) of my observations on a fossil fungus is so important, that I shall be glad of a word of reply. You say, “But should not this primordial plant have led a non-parasitic life? for if parasitical, then this fact points to some pre-existing plant”.
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SMITH, W. The Fossil Peronospora as a Primordial Plant. Nature 17, 144 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/017144b0
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