Excerpt from The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, 1877, Vol. 9 Of late years new light has been thrown on the question of the nutrition of saprophytes and certain other plants, owing to the frequency with which fungoid elements are found in association with their roots or rhizomes. 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.