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THE need for a good and well-balanced treatise on the morphology of the fungi, incorporating the results of modern work, is one that has, no doubt, been felt by many botanists in recent years, and the present book comes nearer to meeting it than any that has hitherto appeared. One may, perhaps, regret that so much space is given to cytological details, but this is inherent in the author's expressed object, namely, to apply the data obtained from cytological studies to the interpretation of the problems of comparative morphology in the fungi. This method of treatment leaves comparatively little room for the consideration of the fungi as living organisms, adapted to their surroundings: physiology is not touched on; and life-histories are scarcely described except as incidentals to the cytological story. As a result, the imperfect forms of fructification are relegated to the background and the Fungi Imperfecti as a whole are dismissed in four pages. These, however, are the author's self-imposed limitations and are not open to criticism, however much they may be regretted.
Vergleichende Morphologic der Pilze.
Von Ernst Gäumann. Pp. x + 626. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1926.) 28 gold marks.
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Vergleichende Morphologic der Pilze . Nature 117, 820 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117820a0
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