Text-book of fungi : including morphology, physiology, pathology, classification, etc. / by George Massee.

Date:
1910
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    1,-ANATOMY, BIOLOGY, Etc. INTRODUCTION The study of Fungi from other than a systematic or morphological standpoint may perhaps, without prejudice to earlier botanists, be said to have been initiated by De Bary, whose brilliant researches, continued by his disciples and others more or less directly under their influence, have gradually raised our knowledge respecting these plants to a level with that relating to most other divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom. Cytology has been prosecuted with marked success; such terms as karyokinesis, implying the presence of nuclear spindle, equatorial plate, chromatin grains, etc. ; centrosomes, centrospheres, reduction of chromophores, etc., occur now in every cytological treatise dealing with fungi, whereas a very few years ago, it was only from analogy that such structures could possibly be conceived to exist. The investigations made in this branch of study are as yet too limited to admit of broad generalisations; never- theless, what has already been done is not without phylogenetic significance. Its influence on our knowledge respecting the sexuality of fungi is most marked, and A