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or Coniomycetes, as so much uncertainty still exists with re- 

 gard to many of them. Indeed, notwithstanding all the at- 

 tention that has been paid to Fungi, it may be asserted with- 

 out fear of giving offence, that the modern improvements of 

 microscopes have opened quite a new field to the mycologist. 

 All the genera require an accurate revision, and in such case, 

 I am sure from my own experience, that the structure of many 

 would be found to differ much from received notions. If it 

 had not been from the imperfection of instruments, it is quite 

 impossible that it should have fallen to the lot of any one at 

 the present day to describe the true structure of the hyme- 

 nium in Agarics, or that the quaternary arrangement should 

 have been scarcely recognised except in the Coprini. 



The annexed is a tabular view of the affinities of Fungi as 

 indicated above. 



