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revisit France, and there enjoy the position which his la- 
bours would have earned for him in the society of naturalists, 
our government, which holds it an honour to recompense 
services done to science, will transfer to his widow the advan- 
tages which it was not permitted him to enjoy. 
Decades of Funai, by the Rev. M. J. BEnkELEy, F.L.S. 
First Decade, (With Two Plates, Tas. V. & VL) 
It is intended under the above title to give notices of new 
9r rare species of Fungi in the collection of Sir W, J. Hooker. 
Occasion also will be taken, of correcting former errors and 
. making up omissions, where it is thought advisable to do 
$0; localities of Fungi will be intercalated after the method 
adopted by Dr. Montagne in his * Four Centuries of Cryp- 
togamic Plants,” the intercalated species being distinguished 
by an asterisk. Small collections from different countries 
may thus be enumerated, while larger collections will furnish 
materials for distinct memoirs. It is much to be wished 
that collectors of Fungi, would take notes of the colour and 
Substance of their species when gathered; the latter point, 
especially, being very essential towards ascertaining their 
affinities, The value of such annotations can best be appre- 
ed by those who have to contend with all the difficulties, 
which arise in the examination of exotic forms ; difficulties 
Which are multiplied ten fold in the genus Agaricus from so 
many of our commoner forms, occurring with slight modifi- 
cations in tropical or subtropical countries. 
1. Agaricus (Pleuropus) nidiformis, n. s. preegrandis; pileo 
carnoso cupuleformi glabro rufo ; margine lobato-fisso tenui 
acuto; stipite centrali brevi compresso irregulari. firmo 
glabro; lamellis ad basin stipitis decurrentibus latis distan- 
tibus, hic illic ramosis, ochraceis ; interstitiis levissimis vel 
reticulatis, 
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