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VECrETABLE PARASITES 



to explaining how and why vegetable organisms 

 plant themselves, and grow on and in our skin and 

 appendages. 



In the first place, w^here do these microscopic 



Fig. 8. 



Showing the mode of reproduction of the 

 achoriou . — Bennett. 



spores or seeds of fungi come from? The* world 

 is full of them. They are present in all vegetable 

 mould, and are carried everywhere by the air and 

 water. The dust from our window-panes will 

 reveal them under the microscope. The air we 



It is with the greatest 



breathe contains them. 



