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of 387- Of these, 68 are peculiar to America, 244 are common to Europe and 

 Asia, 61 are common to Europe but not to Asia, and 14 are common to Asia 



but not to Europe. The bibliography of "Connecticut bryology" contains 81 

 titles.— J. M. C. 



British Basidiomycetes.— In 1905 the trustees of the British Museum secured 

 the descriptions made by Mr. W. G. Smith when preparing the series of colored 

 drawings of British Fungi exhibited in the Department of Botany at South Ken- 

 sington. Now these descriptions, accompanied by many line drawings illu 

 trating generic characters, have been published as a handbook," which it is 

 hoped will be useful as an introduction to the field study of the fleshy fungi of 

 Ureat Britain. A short introduction (8 pp.) gives a description of the general 

 ieatures and terminology of the group. The sequence followed is that of Frik- 

 Hymenomycetes Europaei (1874), which is followed also in Great Britain b; 

 ERkELEY, Cooke, and Stevenson. Space has been saved by reducing the 

 descriptions of species to the salient distinctive characters, which must be supple 

 mented by the generic and sectional characters. The total number of species 

 presented ,s about 2130, distributed among 128 genera and n families. Tk 

 «) menomycctes include about 2050 of the species, 106 of the genera, and 6 of 

 armhes. A full glossary and a complete index conclude the volume, which 

 should certainly stimulate the interest and activity hoped for.-J. M. C. 



rrf . r ..* U ** Botanicae •— Th is excellent series of botanical charts, published by 

 hM d H ""** (BerUn) ' haS been a PP earin & d « rin g the last two years, and 



so thaTth t0 bC ° f UnUSUal Value - The y are lar S er than the ordinary Att& 

 the fart thV^ bC SCen Wdl b a Iar S e kcture-room. Even more important is 

 are in I ■ ^ n0t CUrrent illust rations selected by one person, but ther 



the P mnn nSe 0ng1 ? 1 P roducti °ns, each chart being designed by a specialist in 



Baur hL H Pr T, ,' and CXeCUted ^ an artis t under his supervision. Tk 

 »u r has directed thp ;n„ct^*: ,-,, . . .ST. r. „.,w^ 



JAHN tb.'* 



lee th.wp f a. e OI me sexua l forms ot the yeasis, w*— 



bein K now °u < mUC ° rS ' etc The <*arts have been raised slightly in pri* 

 Conn ) hi K ? f^ ° f five unm °unted. Dr. A. F. Blakeslee (Sw» 



J. M 

 British Fungi._T n 1893 



(Natural History). 



a seripc r»f ^:li_ 



s mod* 

 Museufl 



he purpose 

 poisonous 



the public 



mis 



poisonous species. The work of restoring «* 



descriptiv^Tata^TfJ^ George > Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes; » 

 British Museum L draW '" ngS and specimens in the Department of *»* 



British Museum' r 9 X ?P ' 53 '" ^ * ***• J 45- London: The Trustees of tw 





