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to popularize the culinary art, anr" make the English housewife as deft at 

 making the most of the food within her reach as her continental sisters, it is 

 no work of supererogation to teach the distinctions between edible and inedible 

 fungi, and the uses which the former may serve as component parts of an 

 appetising dish. So much in humble discipleship to ovur good friend Dr. BuU, 

 to whom also " You and I and all of us " owe so much for the zeal, liberality, 

 and self-sacrifising good-nature with which he contrived to render pleasant the 

 sojourn of our guests, who would carry away a no less grateful remembrance 

 of the private S'lin-cs of their friends in Hereford than of the hospitality 

 afforded by the various country seats which came within the range of their 

 excursion. One subject mooted in the post-prandial speeches of our fungus 

 feast I reserve for convenience to a later point, and I need not refer to the 

 various able papers re.vl on that occasion, because they will be found in our 

 records ; but I have not noticed in the rep rts of the meeting any 

 reference to a subject mooted at a soiree at Mr. Cam's, where we were 

 fortunate enough to end the foray and feast day of October 23rd. 

 I mean Mr. Machen Jones's urgent plea for a fixed standard of pronun- 

 ciation and <£uantity as applied to mycological words derived from the Greek 

 or Latin. No doubt the great latitude which botanists at present indulge in 

 this respect is often a great trial to critical ears ; and it would not be amiss if 

 some competent Woolhopian would undertake a portable and handy 

 " Gradus ad mycologiam ;" but it must be remembered, in mitigation, that 

 some words borrowed from other languages, and mispronounced by us, in 

 lioint of quantity (take, for instance, balcofiy, which ought to be pronounced 

 balcdny), have taken authority for mLspronunciation by long use ; and that 

 the practical mischief of pronouncing "entoloma" "entol5ma,"or vice versa, is 

 not likely to be widely disastrous. Dipping lately into the "Anglo-Latin 

 Satirical Poetry of the 12th Century," I found two elegiac lines in a compli- 

 mentary epistle of Nigel Wireker, a writer studied by Chaucer, to his patron, 

 William Longchamp, which may be quoted as early authority for latitudina- 

 rianism in this matter. De Longchamp was about to quit ecclesiastical pre- 

 ferment in Poitou for England, where he became Bishop of Ely, and the poet 

 .suggests to him that he should aim at nothing less that the Archbishopric of 

 Canterbury. This is the couplet to which I refer : — 



Anglorum sedem puiman pete, sive BritOnum ; 

 Si BritOnium mavis dicere, nemo victat. 



And it may be rendered freely : — 



To be Primate among the Britones expect ; 

 If you'd rather say BritOnes, I doa't object. 



Laxity of quantity could hardly have more rope than this. But — to be 

 serious — the greater concern for practical fungolists is to popularise their 

 discoveries — to coin an intelligible and vernacular nomenclature ; and to effect 



