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Reviews. 
Introduction to the Study of Fungi: By M.C. Cooke, LLD. 
8vo, pp. 360. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1895. 
This is in some respects an elementary work and in others the 
author may presuppose a fair working knowledge of Fungi. It is 
designed for the use of collectors, not so much in giving rules for 
gathering and preserving specimens, as to put before them a large 
fund of information the bringing together of which has been the 
work of a long and busy life spent largely among the objects 
treated. Dr. Cooke has been one of the great workers in fungi 
from the standpoint of the collector and systematic student. 
The work before us is divided into three parts, namely, organ- 
ography, classification and distribution. Under Part I. chapters 
are given upon mycelium, carpophore, receptacle, fertilization and 
similar divisions. In general the plan under each heading is to 
pass from the simpler to the more complex forms, whether it be 
mycelium, spores or fertilization. 
The main portion ( Part II.) of the work inten up by chaptets 
the leading groups and, mentioning the leading genera, introduces 
the reader to the types and their modifications. 
While the work is fairly well illustrated it is noticed that many 
of the cuts have done service in the author’s “ Handbook of Brit- 
ish Fungi,” and other works. Some disappointment may be ex- 
perienced in working with the index, as it is brief and the glos- 
sary has a similar fault. The classification worked out by Brefeld 
is presented in tabulated form, not that it is accepted by the 
author, but because suggestive and influential. 
In its presentation the publishers might have been more fortu- 
nate in the selection of paper, etc. It is a heavy book without 
reason sufficient to the reviewer, and this will detract, in America 
at least, from its usefulness. Byron D. HALsteb. 
Contribution to the Flora of Yucatan. C.¥.Millspaugh. Pub. Field 
Col. Mus. Bot. Ser. 1: 1-64. pl. 1-4. 
In this first botanical paper from the Field Columbian Mu. 
seum, of Chicago, Dr. Millspaugh enumerates the species col- 
lected by him while scone Mr. slags: V. Armour’ s a a 
