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Eryngium yuccefolium, and Euphrasia officinalis for illustration 
in his work. 
Observationes analytice in Fungos Agaricinos Italie borealis. 
Under this title Dr. Pietro Voglino has issued a pamphlet on the 
Agarics of Northern Italy, illustrated by fifty figures. He con- 
cludes that from the form and dimensions of the spores and 
basidii every species may be distinguished. 
Histoire des Herbiers. Dr. St. Lager. (Pamphlet, pp. 120, 
Paris, 1885.) We have just received this review of the origin and 
growth of Herbaria in which the author claims that the history 
of the subject has been neglected, and has spent considerable 
time in searching for the originator of the first Herbarium. He 
finally comes to the conclusion that to John Falconer, an English- 
man, belongs that honor, for in 1545 his collections excited the 
admiration of Italian botanists at Ferrare, but unfortunately they 
have not been preserved. The oldest in existence is that of 
Jean Girault, Lyons, 1558, and next that of Aldrovani and Cesal- 
pino, 1553-1563. Many pages are devoted to the enumeration 
of the plants, and descriptions of the collections of Girault, Cesal- 
pino, Rauwolf and G. Bauhin, all ante-Linnzean. 
LTymenomycetes Britannici, by the Rev. John Stevenson. In 
two volumes with illustrations. Vol. I Agaricus to Bolbitius. 
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1886, p. 372. 
The first volume of Mr. Stevenson’s book has at last appeared, 
and will be received by the British student of Mycology as a 
boon, inasmuch as hitherto the descriptions of our Hymenomy- 
cetes have been scattered without order in various publications. 
The main idea of the work is undoubtedly to give the English 
speaking student of fungi, in his own language, an accurate 
retranslation—or rather an interpretation of the work of Fries. 
With this object Mr. Stevenson has availed himself of the descrip- 
tions in the Hymenomycetes Europai as a basis, and has incorpo- 
rated with these, not only the fuller details given in the J/ono- 
graphia, but also whatever information is contained in the 
smaller works of Fries. The illustrations of genera and sub- 
genera are from nature, by Mr. W. G. Smith. The spore meas- 
urements are from various authors, and are all given in micro- 
millimeters. One noticeable feature of the book is the fullness 
