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“UNFORTUNATELY the literature of mycology consists largely of fragments, memorials of splendid designs never prosecuted, of good intentions never fulfilled. We cannot but call to mind one after another the splendid works we might have consulted had they attained completion.”Thus wrote M. C. Cooke, the noted English mycologist, in 1875, and the position remains much the same to-day. With the publication of this second and final volume, however, the late Mr. Grove joined the select company of those who have completed a flora of their country's Ccelo-mycetes, and has become, in fact, the first to do so in the English language ; it is a crowning achievement to his long career.
British Stem- and Leaf-Fungi (Cœlomycetes):
a Contribution to our Knowledge of the Fungi Imperfecti belonging to the Sphæropsidales and the Melanconiales. By W. B. Grove. Vol 2: Sphæropsidales, comprising Sphærioideæ, with Coloured Spores ; Nectrioideæ, Excipulaceæ, and Leptostromataceæ ; and Melanconiales. Pp.xi + 406. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1937.) 21s. net.
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M., E. Biology. Nature 141, 457 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141457b0
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