FUNGI : PYRENOMYCETES. 



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Fungi ; and has an additional interest in the eyes of the botanist, for 

 its beauty led Persoon to the study of the class, of the scientiiic 

 arrangement of which he was the first to lay the foundation. The 

 appointed office of the order is the decomposition of organic matter, 

 and making it again fit for entering into new combinations. 



