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most unmistakable delineation of whole series is the next, viz., that of 

 Clathrus canceUatus. " Fungus Faviginosus (Morchella Esculenta) needs no 

 description, although we should not have looked for it among the poisonous 

 fungi. Neither does our old friend Phallus impudicus, although the editor 

 has done his best to puzzle us by printing the figures upside down. The 

 chapter ends with a representation of a group of half-dozen " Tuber Terne," 

 but beyond these being subterranean fungi it is difficult to say whether the 

 author intends them to represent edible or poisonous species. They appear 

 to be truffies, but there is a slight resemblance to Sowerby's t 310 of Tuber 

 album. They are, however, of exotic origin, and are reported to be very 

 baneful in dry and gravelly grounds in Pannonia, where the inhabitants are 

 constrained to dig them up and cast them about as we do molehills. 

 Gerarde remarks that poisonous mushrooms grow where old rusty iron lieth, 

 or rotten clouts, or near to serijent's dens, or the roots of trees that bring 

 forth venomous irvdt. In bringing my uninteresting paper to a close, I can- 

 not do better than quote the translation of the lines from Horace given by 

 our author at the close of his remarks on the habitats of fungi — 



The meadow mushrooms are in kind the best. 



It is ill trusting any of tlie rest 



