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to tax too highly the patience of the cook ; and so with the distribution of 
dried specimens of the Fairy-ring Champignon to all who wished it, the feast 
of Agarics was over for the day. This excellent Agaric will keep well, when 
threaded on string and dried and kept dry, through the winter, readily impart- 
ing its flavour to soups or made dishes as required. 
er dinner Dr. Bull read a continuation of the “ Illustrations of Edible 
ear. This was followed by a very entertaining paper by the Rev. J. D. La 
Touche, on “ Why Funguses should not be eaten,” treating the subject practi- 
cally, yet in a style which made the paper a model for an after-dinner essay, 
and supplied material for conversation, in the course of which Dr. Bull suc- 
cessfully and completely answered the Reverend objector’s difficulties. Mr. 
W. G. Smith delivered a lecture on the “Spores of Fungi,” and Mr. Edwin 
Lees read an excellent paper on “ Fairy Rings and the Funguses that inhabit 
them.” . 
It is scarcely necessary to add the following note by Dr. Bull, seeing that 
the caterers for the feast included that gentleman and other devoted fungolo- 
gical students, but as he gives it, it may be well to add it,— T'Aree days after 
the feast, pleasurable recollections only remain. . 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The materials for a second edition of the * Genera of South African Plants,’ 
by the late Prof. Harvey, having been placed at his request in the hands of his 
the volume, 
Prof. Oliver has published the first volume of his * Flora of Tropical Africa.’ 
In its preparation he has received assistance from Dr. Masters and Messrs. 
he first volume of Harvey and Sonders’ * Flora Capensis.’ 
We understand that the ‘Flora of Middlesex,’ by Dr. Trimen and Mr. Dyer, 
will be speedily sent to press, and may be expected to be published by Mr. 
Hardwicke early next year. 
The Rev. J. E. Leefe, editor of the ‘Salictum Britannicum Exsiccatum,’ pro- 
poses to recommence the i f i both British and foreign, illustrat- 
ing the genus Salix. 
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Tt is hoped that the first part, containing about twenty- 
