[16] See Contemporary Review for July, p. 710.
[17] See Contemporary Review, July, p. 710.
[18] For a summary of our knowledge respecting this group, see the "Linnean Society's Journal," Vol. xiv. (Zoology), p. 136.
[19] A "spore" is a minute reproductive particle.
[20] See Contemporary Review for July, 1879, p. 714.
[21] Some botanists think that yeast is no true and definite kind of plant, but that it is only a conglomeration of fungoid spores of divers sorts.
[22] This motion is that referred to at the bottom of page 696, in the Contemporary Review for July, 1879, as Cyclosis.
[23] Some readers may be startled at the mode here adopted of primarily dividing the Phanerogams, and may object to it as opposed to usage; but reasons will be given later for the mode of division here adopted.
[24] The above-named plants may for our purpose be thus conveniently grouped together, according to the older fashion of botanists. Strictly speaking, however, they should be divided amongst several orders—e.g., hazel and hornbeam (Corylaceæ), the oak, beech, and chestnut (Capuliferæ), the birches (Betulaceæ), the willows (Salicaceæ), &c.
[25] Containing upwards of 2500 species.