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the Thimble-finger, the Rootingshank, the Couch, the Guilty-sprout, and the 

 Striped Stump flap ! One can hardly believe the author to have been in earnest 

 when inventing such mountebank names. If some three or four gentlemen vrhom 

 I have in my mind would draw up a list of English names of species, to be 

 submitted for consideration, and afterwards to be published under the authority 

 of the Woolhope Club, more would be accomplished to popularize the knowledge 

 of British Fungi than anything hitherto achieved. 



