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lott Nazerah. This is a very busy places now, aud jopiwarde: of 800 persons o 
both sexes and of all bout in every direction ; although 
just twenty-three years ago I was encamped aia in the midst of dense jungle, 
while my own servants and boatmen ran away to the next village, through fear 
of the tigers, leaving me all alone in my tent, which, by the bye, was blown down 
in the night by a storm.” 
Index Fungorum Britannicorum. A Complete List of Fungi found in 
the British Islands to the present date, arranged. so as to be appli- 
cable either as a Check List or for Herbarium Labels. By M. C. 
Cooke. London : R. Hardwicke. 
The title of this little volume, which we have transcribed at length, 
sufficiently explains its object. In fifty- eight clearly-printed pages, 
it contains a list of all the known British Fungi, numbered throughout 
in serial order ; the last having the large number of 3079 prefixed to 
it. The want of synonyms would be a serious defect, were it not for 
the reference that Mr. Cooke gives in his first page to Streinz's * No- 
menclator Fungorum,’ which must be taken as the guide to his species 
in any case of doubt. We regret that this tribe of plants has so few 
students, and that consequently any volume treating of them can have 
is a limited sirva Gon. 
BOTANICAL. NEWS. 
An introductory lecture on botany, delivered in the Royal Agricultural 
College, Cirencester, in August last, by Mr. John Bayldon, has just. been 
printed, and will be read with profit by those whose office, it, is to deliver 
similar lectures. Mr. Bayldon displays a thorough philosophical appreciation 
of botany, and in language of singular — ity and. earnestness shaw”) M 
r. J. G. Baker, of Thirsk, is now editing, or the Tri Naturalists 
Wield Club, a new Flora of Northumberland. and Praha, and: would. feel 
obliged for any information bearing upon the subject. 
Dr. H. Wawra, who accompanied the Archduke Ferdinand Max of jerat 
‘to the Canaries, Cape de Verd, and Brazil, is about to publish the botanieal 
results of this voyage, in which he will be assisted by. Mr. F.. Maly,) Drs. 
Reichenbach, fil., Schott, and Ksvmpebubes. The work (price £6) will-be in 
folio, containing about 80 pages of letterpress and 100 plates, 30. of which will 
be printed in colours by Messrs. Hartinger and Son, of Vienna, who were the 
first to apply that process to the illustration of natural history. 
