does he refer to the toil they have cost him, and the satisfaction he has had in it. The 

 " Systema Mycologicum," the symmetry of its lines improved, and its tracery sharper 

 cut and more gracefully disposed l>y the " Epicrisis " and " Monographia." is veritably a 

 monumeutum s?re perennius. He designs in this latter work, in the drawings he has pre- 

 pared, and in the magnificent plates now in course of publication, to which it furnishes the 

 descriptions, to remove the causes of all future difficulty in the discrimination of species 

 denned by himself. It is in speaking of this plan that, with a strong and just conviction, 

 and at the same time the modesty befitting so noble a character, he adapts to his position 

 Virgil's line, " To the study of the Hymeno-and Gastro-mycetes, as the tribes at once the 

 most noble and best capable of accurate determination, to Funguses in the strict sense, I 

 have devoted the fullness of my powers, and I doubt not that posterity will recognise 

 ' Quanti molis erat Fungorum condere genttm.' " 



Most of the works mentioned in this paper, it may be said all but the most recent, 

 have long been out of print In the earlier years of the century the students of any branch 

 of cryptogamic botany were few, fewer still those who took interest in the Fungi and Lichens. 

 Fries' editions were not at any time large ; even so late as 1557 he thought 100 copies of so 

 important a work as that from which this translation has been made as many as could 

 be disposed of within a reasonable period. Even now the cultivators of Fungology as a 

 science are rare in any country, but they increase, especially here. It may be doubted 

 if any of these fundamenta of the systematic branch will ever be reproduced. It will 

 probably, therefore, not be without interest to the Club to find letters appended to the titles 

 of the several works here enumerated, which indicate where they may be found in several 

 of our public or semi-public libraries, B.M. standing for British Museum, either in the 

 general or botanical departments ; K. for the library attached to the Herbarium at 

 Kew ; L.S. for the library of the Linnasan Society ; and C. and E. for the University 

 libraries at Cambridge and Edinbro'. There exist in one or more of these libraries other 

 mycological works of Fries not mentioned by him in his " Historiola," some of which 

 have more than an historical interest. The titles of them are here appended. Nearly all 

 his contributions to the scientific societies of Sweden, &c, are to be found in the British 

 Museum. The full list of them may be consulted in the Royal Society's Universal 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers vsub. Fries, E.), now in course of publication : — 



Specimen systematis Mycologici, Lund. 1817, C ; 



Om Brand och Rost pa, Wiixter (On Brand and Rust in Plants), Lund. 1821, C ; 



Boleti fungorum generis illustratio, Upsala, 1S35 ; 



Synopsis Agaricorum Europa?orum, Lund. 1830 ; 



Genera Hymenomycetum nova Expositio, Upsala, 1836 ; 



Synopsis generis Lentinorum, Upsala, 1S36, BM — K ; 



Anteckningar bfver dein Sverige vaxande atliga Svampar (Description of Edible Fungi 

 growing in Sweden), Upsala, 1836, BM— C ; 



Spicilegiuni plantarum neglectarum, Decas I. Agaricos : 



Hyperrhndios sistens, Upsala, 1837, C : 



Summa Vegetabilium Scandinavia?, 1846, BM— K— LS— E— C : 



Novas Symbols? Mycologies? et Mantissa I., Stockholm, 1851 : 



Nya Svamparter (new Fungi), several papers in Tr. R. S., Stockholm, BM : 



Sveriges atliga och giftiga Svampar (Edible and Poisonous Funguses of Sweden, illus- 

 trated with 100 large colour-printed folio plates), Stockholm, 1851, BM— LS : 



Icones selects? Hymenomycetum noudum delineatorum Fasc. I. II. III., 1808—70, folio 

 colour-printed plates,' in course of publication, for which the Monographia Hymeno- 

 mycetum Sueciss supplies the descriptive characters, BM — LS— E. 

 The memoir "Svampernes Calendarium under mydlersta Sveriges horizont" (Calendar 

 of Fungi alapted to middle Swtden), B.M , and its translations BM— K — LS— E— C, was 

 first read to the Academy of Sciences, at Stockholm in 1857, was composed more with the 

 design of being analogous than supplemental to the Calendarium Flora? of Linneus, which 

 took no note of the seasonal appearances of the Fungi. A very cursory glance will convey 

 the impression, independently of his recommendation, that it must be a favorite with 

 him. It exhibits much of that partly poetic, partly metaphysical, manner of approaching 

 a systematic and practical subject, which seems to colour the Scandinavian as well as 

 the North Teutonic intellect, when much withdrawn from the current rough business of 

 life. A similar halo envelopes several of his shorter essays ; for instance, most of the 

 casual papers he has collected and re-published under the title of Botaniske Utflygter — 

 Fugitive Botanical Disquisitions — (nearly all are to be found in German translations, as 

 well as in the Swedish in B.M.) It is to be recognised in the Systema Orbis Vegetabilis, 

 and presents to us a pleasant phase of his mind, altogether different from that thoroughly 

 practical habit which has developed the rigid and almost stern style he frequently adopts 

 when I'onfining himself to science purely. I call attention to this work because the in- 

 forma i id it affords is likely to be appreciated by the general memberhood of a Field 

 Naturalists' Club. It has been translated by Nylander for the Annales des Sciences 

 Naturals, -l t ii Ser., Vol. xii. for 1859, and it appears also in a German version in Flora of 

 the same year. 



