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CONTENTS
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GLOSSARY xix
ERRATA xxii
INTRODUCTION xxiii
CHAPTER I
HISTORY OF LICHENOLOGY
A. INTRODUCTORY i
B. PERIOD I. PREVIOUS TO 1694 2
C. PERIOD II. 16941729 5
D. PERIOD III. 1729 1780 6
E. PERIOD IV. 17801803 ...... 9
F. PERIOD V. 18031846 ...... 10
G. PERIOD VI. 18461867 .
H. PERIOD VII.
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1867 AND AFTER
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CHAPTER II
CONSTITUENTS OF THE LICHEN THALLUS
I. LICHEN GONIDIA
i. GONIDIA IN RELATION TO THE THALLUS
A. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LICHEN GONIDIA . . 21
B. GONIDIA CONTRASTED WITH ALGAE 22
C. CULTUREEXPERIMENTSWITHTHELlCHENTHALLUS 24
D. THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF GONIDIA . . 25
E. MICROGONIDIA 26
F. COMPOSITE NATURE OF THALLUS .... 27
G. SYNTHETIC CULTURES 27
H. HYMENIAL GONIDIA 30
I. NATURE OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ALGA AND
FUNGUS 31
a. Consortium and symbiosis
b. Different forms of association
J. RECENT VIEWS ON SYMBIOSIS AND PARASITISM . 36
2. PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SYMBIONTS
A. NUTRITION OF LICHEN ALGAE 39
a. Character of algal cells
b. Supply of nitrogen
c. Effect on the alga
d. Supply of carbon
e. Nutrition within the symbiotic plant
/ Affinities of lichen gonidia
B. NUTRITION OF LICHEN FUNGI 44
C. SYMBIOSIS OF OTHER PLANTS . . . . . 45