Abstract
MR. PLOWRIGHT's monograph will at once take its rank as the chief English authority on the interesting groups of parasitic Fungi to which it relates. The results of the author's important original investigations are here incorporated with those of other observers to form a work which brings our knowledge of these plants thoroughly up to date. The greater part of the book is systematic, the detailed description of species being preceded by a general account of the structure and life-history of the two orders. These introductory chapters will probably appeal most to the reader who is not a specialist in mycology, though the biological notes attached to the specific descriptions are also of great interest, and effectually relieve the dryness which is usually inseparable from purely taxonomic work.
A Monograph of the British Uredineæ and Ustilagineæ.
With an Account of their Biology, including the Methods of observing the Germination of their Spores and of their Experimental Culture. By Charles B. Plowright. Illustrated with Woodcuts and Eight Plates. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1889.)
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S., D. British Uredineæ and Ustilagineæ . Nature 39, 553–554 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039553a0
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