RUST, SMUT, MILDEW, & MOULD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON: GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S-INN FIELDS, W.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Plate VII. W. West imp. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rust, Smut, Mildew, & Mould. --------------------- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF MICROSCOPIC FUNGI. BY M. C. COOKE, AUTHOR OF “A PLAIN AND EASY ACCOUNT OF BRITISH FUNGI,” “INDEX FUNGORUM BRITANNICORUM,” “A MANUAL OF BOTANIC TERMS,” “A MANUAL OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY,” ETC. Third Edition, WITH NEARLY 300 FIGURES BY J. E. SOWERBY. LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY. 1872. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BY THE SAME AUTHOR. THE BRITISH FUNGI: A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi: with especial reference to the Esculent and other Economic Species. Illustrated with Coloured Plates of 40 Species. 2nd Edition. Fcap. 8vo., price 6s. “The author is a thorough mycophagist, well acquainted with the peculiar features by which the most remarkable of the edible kinds of Fungi may be known.”—GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. “A very readable volume upon the lowest and least generally understood race of plants. For popular purposes the work could not have been better done.”—ATHENÆUM. ------- INDEX FUNGORUM BRITANNICORUM: A Complete List of Fungi found in the British Islands to the Present Date. Arranged so as to be applicable either as a Check-List or for Herbarium Labels. Royal 8vo., price 2s. 6d. Also the same Work, printed on only one side, for Herbarium Labels. Part I. HYMENOMYCETES, 1s. Part II. GASTEROMYCETES, CONIOMYCETES, and HYPHOMYCETES, 1s. Part III. ASCOMYCETES, 1s. -------------- London: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, Piccadilly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.