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and of tMs section more especially, as the one with which we are 

 practically best acquainted, we miist speak in terms of strong 

 commendation. The fourth section includes Mosses, thirty pages; 

 and the fifth section, the higher Cryptogams, completes 426 pages 

 of compact information on the Cryptogamic Literature of the year. 

 It could hardly be expected that snch a work could be produced 

 within a less period than one year from the completion of the year 

 included within its scope. The whole of the year 1874, for in- 

 stance, has been put into shape, classified, arranged, analysed, 

 tabulated and printed during 1875, so that it may be distributed 

 to subscribers as early as possible in 1876. It is a book which no 

 one, who would attempt to keep pace with the Literature of any 

 gronp of Cryptogamia, could afford to do without, and a sovereign 

 thus expended, would save a vast amount of individual labour, which 

 it is presumed all specialists would employ, in keeping a record of 

 such papers and communications as came to their knowledge, with 

 the additional advantage of its being better done. It is under the 

 general editorship of Professor Leopold Just, and is published in 

 Berlin. 



THEEE FUNGI FROM KASHMIR. 



By Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A. 



The following three Fungi were sent to the Kew Museum by 

 Dr. Aitcheson : — 



1. Russula alutacea, Fr. Ep.j}.^&2. 

 Gulmarg, Kashmir. In the woods during the rains. August, 

 1875. 



2. Iientinus Lecomtei, Fr. Ep. p. 388 (Agaricns Lecomtei, Schwein. 

 Car. No. 794.) 

 On decomposed wood during rain. Eaten by the natives. 

 Gulmarg. 



The specimen sent in its dry state is about 2^ inches across, but 

 it is stated to grow in large masses, and is sometimes twenty times 

 as large. The species occurs in the United States, and has been 

 gathered by Leveille in Hungary, who has described it under the 

 name of Agaricus Sainsonii (Demid. Voy. tab. 1, fig. 3). I have 

 a specimen gathered by my son in Hungary. The vernacular 

 name is Sihy. 



3. Hydnuxn Aitchesoni, ^.— Pileis imbricatis pallidis subtiliter 

 tomentosis glabratis ; margine inflexis lobatis fissis ; stipite com- 

 muni centrali crassis, quandoque obsoletis ; acuteis tenuibus longis 

 fuscescentibus, decurrentibus. 



Gulmarg, 8500 feet. Sept., during the rains. Esculent. 

 Vernacular name, Ryle-gfib. 



