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** mycological club." A number of persons thus associated together 

 might purchase a small reference library to be kept in a club room, at 

 a trifling cost to each member. Here specimens could be brought, 

 the literature and illustrations compared and an exchange of opinions 

 between the members on the various plants would assist in a more 

 ready determination of the plant, and in the acquisition of useful 

 information as to occurrence, habits of growth, etc. Some few in 

 r.uch a community would become more expert than others, and could 

 at length be regarded as " specialists " to whom more doubtful matters 

 could be referred, or who themselves in doubtful ca^es could consult 

 by correspondence with some one possessing greater opportunity at 

 some botanical center. Such a club would undoubtedly become inter- 

 ested in other nature subjects which would afford both pleasure and 

 I^rofit. 



A few books and pamphlets which might be obtained to start such 

 a reference library are enumerated below with the price. Same of the 

 larger useful books are not here mentioned because of the cost. 



Farlow, W. G. Notes for Mushroom-Eaters (published in Garden 

 and Forest^ January and February, 1894). Published also as a 

 separate. 25 cents. 



Gibson, W. H. Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms. $7.50. 



Massee, G. British Fungus Flora. 4 vols. $2.00 each. 



Peck, C. H. Mushrooms and Their Use. 50 cents, 



A recent work by Dr. Peck, with many colored illustrations, pub- 

 lished in the forty-eighth annual report of the New York State 

 Museum of Natural History, and issued as a separate, has been 

 exhausted, but a new edition is being published. This can be obtained 

 when issued for about one dollar by applying to S. B. Griswold, State 

 Library, Albany, N. Y. 



" A Text Book of British Fungi," by Dehsle Hay, contains a fairly 

 good glossary of terms used m descriptive works, and also an analyt- 

 ical key arranged after W. G. Smith. A chart of colors, which is 

 useful in taking notes, can be found in Saccardo's " Chromotaxia "; 

 60 cents. This latter, as well as Dr. Peck's " Mushrooms and Their 

 Use," can be obtained from the Cambridge Botanical Supply Com- 

 pany, Cambridge, Mass. This pamphlet contains also a list of other 

 works on fungi. 



Geo. F. Atkinson. 



