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MICEOSCOPIC
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CHAPTER I.
CLUSTER-CUPS.
IN these latter days, when everyone who possesses
a love for the marvellous, or desires a knowledge
of some of the minute mysteries of nature, has,
or ought to have, a microscope, a want is occasionally
felt which we have essayed to supply.
This want consists in a guide to some systematic
botanical study, in which the microscope can be
rendered available, and in which there is
ample
field for discovery, and ample opportunity for the
elucidation of facts only partly revealed. Fungi,
especially the more minute epiphyllous species,
present just such an opportunity as many an
ardent student would gladly take advantage of;
one great obstacle to the pursuit being hitherto
found in the absence of any
section
of the British Flora, embracing
hand-book to this
the emendations,
improvements, and additions of the past
twenty-seven years (the period at which the fifth
volume of the ^' English Flora " made its appear-
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