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Excerpt from On the Haustoria of the Erysipheae The study of plant structure and development as a means of revealing relationships in plants appealed to botanists immediately upon the advent of the microscope, but the study of structure and development as a means of revealing functions is a.more recent field of investigation which has already produced most valuable results. While the questions concerning the important functions of reproduction must be largely answered from the side of structure there are also other functions performed by vital organs too minute and too intangible for investigation by experiment. Careful observations of the changes occurring in the growing haustoria of a parasitic fungus: must add to our special knowledge of the functions of the fungus, and to our knowledge of parasitism in.general. That the progressive study of structure must to a large extent accompany inquiries in biology is well illustrated in the early literature on the Erysipheae, which was produced at a.time when the possibilities of microscopic study were Just beginning to be appreciated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.