VI ADVERTISEMENT. 



Iiave arisen during its progress, I lament that some of my 

 best friends and social companions have departed without 

 that satisfaction, but their ardour for science will not be for- 

 gotten. May the peace, at the commencement of which 

 this work ends, lomr promote the i-itercourse of British Bo- 

 tanists with their coiitinintal Frieiids, that all may socially 

 partake of the be.iefifs arising from a knowledge of the ex- 

 tent and sublimity of the creation, and become admirers of 

 the numerous blessings continually spread before us. 



The Fungi being necessarily a part of British Botany, I 

 have herewith subjoined a list of them as published in Eng- 

 lish Fungi. To these I have put the initials E. for edible; 

 P. for poisonous ; D. for such as are signs of disorder in 

 trees, corn, &c« such as most parasites; R. for rot in houses, 

 ships, &c. 



JAMES SOWERBY. 



3CWA Sepiemberf 1814 



