A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and Varieties, and Five Plates, With Figures of the Spores of One Hundred and ... Illustrative of the Genera (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The apathy towards the class cannot arise from any lack of external beauty of the species, internal elegance of their different parts, nor deficiency of stimulative attraction during the process of dissection and examination, as these are all supplied in sufficient abundance to satisfy, not only the most ardent lover of Natural History, but also to excite a thirst in the breast of the most indigent. Neither can it arise from any difficulty in preserving the species when gathered, nor originate from a supposed absence of representatives in certain districts, as a number sufficiently ample to render its study attractive and interesting, may, if looked for, always be found.

Undoubtedly one great drawback and hindrance to the study of this class of plants originates from a feeling, which is common among cryptogamic botanists, that its correct study is difficult and perplexing, and that the limits of its genera are ill defined, and are not characterised by features so manifest as to render the species assignable with tolerable ease to their proper genus. Another cause has originated from the want of a work, complete in itself, containing a full description of all the native species, and their classification simplified; and another from not obtaining a sufficiently powerful microscope, by which to examine them.

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