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IN an address at the meeting last year of the Swiss Society of Naturalists (Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 1930), Chodat gives an interesting survey of the history and recent advances in lichenology. As lichens are the only plants which, as a class, are characterised by a dual nature, they are the out standing examples of symbiosis—a term first used by De Bary, by which he did not intend to convey any idea of mutual effect of one symbiont upon the other, either for mutual benefit or the reverse.
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Symbiosis and Specificity in Lichens. Nature 127, 647 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127647b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/127647b0