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VEGETABLE PARASITES 



to explaining how and why vegetable organisms 

 plant themselves, and grow on and in our skin and 

 appendages. 



In the first place, where do these microscopic 



Fig. 8. 



Showing the mode of reproduction of tlie 

 acliorion. — Bennett. 



spores or seeds of fungi come from? The world 

 is full of thein. 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 

 breathe contains them. It is with the greatest 



