. The mushroom book. A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner Fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. CHAPTER II : THE RELATION OF FUNGI TO OTHER PLANTS A CLASSIFICATION or Orderly arrangement of material collected for study is indispensable to true pleasure and profit. The nature student must classify both his specimens and the knowledge he may obtain about them ; for, as Spen- cer has said, "When a man's knowl- edge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confu- sion of ; As he
. The mushroom book. A popular guide to the identification and study of our commoner Fungi, with special emphasis on the edible varieties. Mushrooms; Cookery (Mushrooms); cbk. CHAPTER II : THE RELATION OF FUNGI TO OTHER PLANTS A CLASSIFICATION or Orderly arrangement of material collected for study is indispensable to true pleasure and profit. The nature student must classify both his specimens and the knowledge he may obtain about them ; for, as Spen- cer has said, "When a man's knowl- edge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confu- sion of ; As he compares his specimens he sees interesting grada- tions of resemblance, and becomes fas- cinated with the pleasure of tracing their relationships and the gradual evo- lution of higher forms from lower. Every lover of nature who haunts the fields and woods acquires a rich store of facts about plant life, and with- out, perhaps, recognising that he does so, distinguishes two great groups of plants—those which have attractive flowers, and those which have no flowers at all. His flowerless plants bear no seeds, but quan- tities of fine, dust-like particles which rise in the air as he brushes his stick over their green leaves. As the powers of observa- tion develop, he distinguishes the ferns and Christmas greens among flowerless plants, and perhaps soon recognises that the soft green moss bank, too, is composed of small plants, and that the green mats, the liverworts, on stones and moist banks and logs, are plants also. His only reason, perhaps, for calling them plants is that they grow and are green. He may S. Corollas and honey, at- tractive to insects. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, Nina L. (Nina Lovering). New York, Doubleday, Page & Co.
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