Cluster-cups on leaves, brands and smuts on grain, mildews and moulds: Cooke introduces the microscopic fungi that blight crops and garden plants. He explains how they reproduce and spread, their curious alternation of forms, and how to find and study them with a microscope, with nearly three hundred figures by J. E. Sowerby.
A classic primer for naturalists with a microscope, by one of the great Victorian mycologists. Download the free EPUB.