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MYCOGKAPHIA. 



stopped in fhe middle of the Fungi. All tliese instances seem to 

 indicate some want of adequate support, wliicli may perhaps occa- 

 sion the addition of the present work to the long catalogue of 

 failures. Let ns hope not ! 



It is wholly beyond our province, for obvious reasons, to make 

 any comment on " Mycologia," except to introduce it to our 

 readers, with a list of the figures contained in the first part, and a 

 reprint of the notice which appears therein : — 



The following is the " Notice " above alluded to : — 

 It would be more than could be expected of one man, within the 

 limits of a natural life, to publish coloured figures of every known 

 species of Fungus, even did he possess the materials for the 

 purpose. Nevertheless one person may contibute to this desirable 

 result, hence I have commenced the present work, intending for the 

 present to confine it to the Discomycetes. It was intended to have 

 presented each smaller genus, and sections or subgenera of the 

 larger ones, complete in themselves, but the difficulties have been 



