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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



Dei Funghi sosjpetti e velenosi del Territorio Sienese. Per Francesco 

 Yalenti-Serini, M.D. Pubblicato sotto gli auspicii e per cura della 

 Reale Accademia di Medicina di Torino. Torino, 1868. \_0n the 

 Suspected and Poisonous Fungi of the Territory of Siena. By Dr. 

 r. Valenti-Serini. Oblong folio. With 56 coloured plates.] 



This very important contribution to crjq^togamic botany is from one 

 who has devoted many years of study to the discrimination of the 

 different species of Fungi, chiefly with a view to determine which 

 are those safe for the use of man as food. Dr. Yalenti-Serini is 

 the author of many works upon mycology, one of which is a general 

 "Flora Micologica" of the Sienes© territorj'-, in two large folio volumes. 

 Upper Italy is a country in which these plants are abundant and 

 extensively eaten, and where accidents from the employment of 

 poisonous ones by mistake are not unfrequent. Hence the interest 

 attached to the selection of those that are safely edible. In a former 

 work the author embraced the whole of the fungi, edible and poi- 

 sonous, and reproduced them in relief, in terra cotta, coloured after 

 nature. This work also was a mycology applied to hygiene and toxi- 

 cology, and was prepared primarily to teach his countrymen which 

 species and varieties are to be selected, and which to be rejected. 



After the manuscript of the present volume, accompanied by the 

 drawings (now very carefully reproduced in fifty-six coloured litho- 

 graphs), had been presented to the Academy of Medicine of Turin, 

 an elaborate report upon it was laid before the Academy by Professor 

 Antonio Garbiglietti, which pointed out the great value of Dr. Va- 

 lenti-Serini's manuscript, and recommended its publication ; besides 

 which, terra-cotta facsimiles of these dangerous fungi, and the draw- 

 ings also, have been placed in a cabinet in the museum of the Aca- 

 demy, in order that they may be consulted and studied by those who 

 resort to this museum. 



We will give the title of Dr. Garbiglietti's report below, by which 

 it will be seen that he enhanced his services to botanical science by 

 accompanying it with an extended Catalogue of the Fungi of the 

 neighbourhood of Turin and the whole of Upper Italy*. This 

 catalogue embraces 500 species, and, besides other matters, gives the 

 places of their growth and their qualities. It is a valuable work, 

 and well deserved to be published by the Academy in a separate 

 formf. 



* Intomo air opera manoscritta del Dr. F. Valenti-Serini, sopra i 

 Funghi sospetti e velenosi del Terr. Sienese, Relazione del Socio Dott. 

 Collegiate Cav. Antonio Garbiglietti. Coll' aggiunta di un Catalogo 

 compilato per cura dello stesso Relatore. Torino, 1864. 



t Catalogo delle principal! Specie di Funghi crescent! ne! contorni di 

 Torino ed in altre Provincie degli antichi Stati Sardi di Terra fernia, di.s- 

 poste secoudo il Sistema Micologico di Fries, compilato per cura del 

 Dott. Coll. Cav. Antonio Garbiglietti, M.D. Torino, 1867. 



