I32 NOTES ON FUNGI, FORESTAL AND OTHERS. 



flatter myself that I still hold the record. I often look back with 

 something of surprise as well as gratification, that I was able to 

 accomplish so much. However, it was done with great 

 difficulty, from which 1 should shrink in these latter days. 

 Nevertheless all human work is to a certain extent imperfect, 

 and I have never laid claim to absolute perfection in anything 

 that I have ever done, least of all in a work of so much difficulty 

 as that which I have alluded to. Now and then I am kindly 

 reminded by some one or other of my friends of a few of my 

 failures, and I suppose that they are rather surprised that I do 

 not accept their strictures with a more grateful heart. Moreover 

 I can say with confidence that I am better pleased at the vindica- 

 tion of truth than the gratification of my own vanity. I think 

 that my days of vanity are all spent, and I am ready to confess 

 my errors, as soon as I become convinced that they are errors. 

 Already I have admitted some in the past, and still one of the 

 most persistent of my critics has lately called on me to make 

 further confession, which I will proceed to do —as far as I can 

 consistent with what I believe to be the truth. 



Of the species oi Amanitce I have nothing to say, except that I think A. 

 struhilifoymis was present when the original of PI. 8 was drawn, and that the 

 execution was faulty and the colour more so, hence the result was a 

 caricature. 



As to AymiUariu the plate called A. focalis, minor (pi. 245) can scarcely be 

 any form oi focalis, but rather of A. causettu, from the scaly stem. 



In Lepiota I think pi. 1180 fairly represents L. hispicla but pi. 27 does not, 

 and may be referred to L. clypeolaria. 



Concerning Tricholoma I have but few confessions to make, and of these 

 Ag. portentosus Fr. comes first, of which Fig. 54 is not a type, indeed I am dis- 

 posed io\et i\. go diS Collybia platyphyllu, a.ndi not very good at that. It was 

 not a drawing of my own, and I never saw the specimens. 



I think that T aygvraceus, and its varieties, is entitled to rank as a species, 

 distinct from T. terreus. 



The gills in pi. 49, Ag. murimiccus should certainly be grey, which is 

 omitted in the plate. 



PI. 167. Agaricus virgatus is a failure inasmuch as the strioe of the pileus 

 should have been of the faintest kind. This plate was spoiled in the printing, 

 and could not be remedied. 



As to Agaricus sadleri, pi. 127, I have little to say, except that it had the 

 sanction of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, and at the time I protested strongly that 

 it was only a peculiar condition of Hypholoma fasciculare, which view is now 

 accepted. 



