At about the same time, spores of the rust fungus were observed with the compound microscope for the first time in England(Hooke,1667).
In Italy, Micheli 60 years later (1729)described many new genera of fungi, illustrated theirreproductive structures,and noted that when he placed them on freshly cut slices of melon, thesefungal struc-tures generally reproduced the same kind of fungus that produced them.