158 Canadian Record of Science. 



He lias also published a little book describing all 

 the Boleti at present known. 



We owe him many thanks for naming for us diffi- 

 cult specimens which we have sent him. 



I would also call attention to a little book called 

 "British Fungi," by M. C. Cook, which, although des- 

 cribing plants found in the British Isles, is very useful 

 to the student in Canada, as many of the dame species 

 are found here, and it has the further merit of being 

 small enough to be carried with one on excursions in 

 search of specimens. 



Another useful and interesting book is "Fungi, 

 their Nature and Uses" of the International Scientific 

 Series. 



A work by Professor Farlow, of Harvard, has been 

 promised for some years past, but has not yet appeared. 

 It is to be on a large scale, and the illustrations will be 

 remarkably tine, as you may see from some plates of 

 the illustrations I have been so fortunate as to secure. 



Among the books spoken of by Gibson, was a French 

 work "Les Champignons," by Moyen which contains 

 a. most satisfactory Analytical Key which we have 

 found very useful, and which we still continue to use, 

 although we have now the two latest American pub- 

 lications which claim to have good keys. 



These two American books, published in 1900, are 

 "Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, 

 Poisonous, &c," by George Francis Atkinson, and 

 "One Thousand American Fungi," by Charles Mc- 

 Iivaine. The former is the smaller, handier and less 

 expensive of the two but, of course, does not describe 

 so large a number as the latter. 



The lantern slides I have to show you to-night have 

 been prepared from the illustrations in Professor 

 Atkinson's work, which, having been made from photo- 

 graphs give very true impressions of the plants. 



I have selected from the illustrations only such as 

 show the species which we have found in Canada, and 

 only representation types of these. 



I hoped, before preparing a paper on the subject, to 



