Universally, the germ precedes the tree, as the tree precedes the seed, in all vegetal growths, from the lowest cryptogam to the lordliest conifer of the Pacific slope.
The affection can be positively discriminated from all others by microscopic examination of the deposit, which reveals the presence of the cryptogam described.
The cryptogam of thrush is sometimes developed on the mucous membrane of the pharynx, either primitively or as an extension of the disease from the oral cavity.
This irritation induces abnormal proliferation of epithelium, upon which the spores of the cryptogam then germinate.
The papilla continues to elongate and the cryptogam to increase, until finally it invades nearly the entire length of the papilla.
Close examination of the parts and microscopic inspection of papillae removed for the purpose are said to show that the spores of the cryptogam are first developed at the base of the papillae, separating them from each other.
Mycotic tonsillitis is due to the development of a cryptogam upon tonsils probably already in a state of catarrhal inflammation in individuals with health impaired by previous disease or unfavorable hygienic influences.
In passing, it may be pointed out that the term Cryptogam is a name which was originally given to the flowerless plants by Linnaeus to indicate that the plan of fertilization was hidden.
As is fully explained later, the plant which arises from the spore of the Vascular Cryptogam is quite an insignificant body known as the prothallus.
Now these points, where my eyes divined the cryptogam pushing back the soil with its button-like heads, these points, where the ordinary fungoid odour was certainly very pronounced, were never selected by the dog.
The insect which seeks it does not come from a distance; it inhabits the places wherein the cryptogam is found.
To seek it myself, by digging at random, would have resulted merely in waste of time; the little cryptogam is not so common that I could hope to find it without a guide.
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