An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants. In letters / By Kurt Sprengel ... Translated from the German.

  • Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833.
Date:
1807
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Credit: An introduction to the study of cryptogamous plants. In letters / By Kurt Sprengel ... Translated from the German. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    temple; I shall now endeavcur to guide you to the secret recesses of her sanctuary, that you may be initiated into the mysteries’ of cryptogamous Vegetation. cc Nature,” says Pliny, the author of the most comprehensive Cyclopasdia of an- tiquity, “ never appears more perfect and wonderful than in her minutest works a maxim, of the truth of which you will be the more convinced, the further you pro- ceed witn me in the investigation of the structure and oeconomy of the small crypto- gamous plants. When you shall have carefully explored the apparently imperfect Organization of these, then only will you be enabled to judge with correctness and precision of the nature of vegetables in general. You know, my dear friend, that Lin- naeus was the first by whom the Ferns, Mosses, Lichens, and Fungi were arranged in one dass, which he called Cryptogamia% because in these plants the organs of fructifi- 2 cation