IMPORTANT WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR 



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Rust, Smut, Mildew, and Mould 



AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF 

 MICROSCOPIC FUNGI 



Illustrated with 269 Coloured Figures by J. E. SOWERBY 

 REVISED AND ENLARGED. CROWN 8vo. PUB. 6/~ F O R 2/6 



Those of our readers who are the happy possessors of microscopes would welcome 

 this book with delight, as opening the way to a definite study of a most interesting 

 branch of plant life. The minute fungi, here so faithfully depicted by Mr Sowerby, 

 and so carefully described by Dr Cooke, have not only beauty of form and colour, but 

 wonderful life-histories. Every hedge or lane or piece of waste ground, even in the 

 suburbs of large towns, will provide specimens which may be easily preserved on the 

 plants which they attack, or mounted as microscope slides. 



The British Fungi 



A PLAIN AND EASY ACCOUNT 



WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ESCULENT AND ECONOMIC 

 SPECIES 



With Coloured Plates of Thirty-four Species, and numerous 

 Woodcuts 



REVISED. CROWN 8vo. PUBLISHED AT 6/- FOR 2/6 



"Mr Cooke writes for those whose education and means are limited, and with 

 pre-eminent success. ... It is really a pleasure to read the Manuals which he has 

 published, for they are up to the mark, and so complete as to leave hardly anything 

 to be desired. The new work on the Fungi contains descriptions of the esculent 

 fungi, the manner in which they are prepared for the table, how to discriminate the 

 nutritious from the poisonous species, details of the principles of their scientific 

 classification, and a tabular arrangement of orders and genera." 



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