266 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY \ 
421. Borerus rueosus Fr. There is a finely executed original 
of this, but badly copied on the plate; the original al pileus 
4 in. more in diameter, and the stem at the middle i is 3 in. more 
diameter. The section on the plate ew not belong to this apeuien 
at all, but is copied from a section B. scaber Fr.—on another 
drawing. There is a note, ‘‘ variety of the proper B. — we stipes 
of which is purely white and does not change co cut.” 
Sowerby names his drawing ‘“‘ Boletus subfuscus. Wi shies 
422. Poryporus auuicatus Fr. The coloured origin SH is 4 in. 
less in diameter than the plate, but there is a pencil indication of 
another example which is 3 in. larger. There is one note: ‘ Miss 
Fanshaw a larger and white spec™ r with a very light crimson violet 
shade maida 11. 1800.’ 
423. yPoRUS AMoRPHUS Fr. This is copied from a finely 
drawn atic sketch. Sower! gis terms his original ‘* Boletus corru- 
gatus She ere confertus 
ERMICULARIS Pers. The British Museum pos- 
sesses the Teena! ewes and three proof impressions of this; 
one of the latter uncoloured and unnumbered, one coloured and 
unnumbered, and one coloured and numbered. The two coloured 
plates show different shades of colour, both very much darker than 
the original drawing, which is palest salmon. There are two notes, 
one, ‘‘ Battersea, in one of the boxes belonging to the red House in 
=a with the woodwork and the ground Aug. 27th 1804”; the 
other reads, ‘‘ pores arent partly elongated ih: pe! curved 
no Sealy punctated the rising conseque ently irregular somewhat 
rounded and finely to cena abou + of an inch deep fles eal 
the rest irregularly solid partly flesh coloured an tly whi 
some part porous and some with neat pores the rest rather radical 
or rooting.” 
425. Ponysaccum onivaceum Fr, The original of this is a highly 
finished uncoloured pencil drawing much finer than the plate, in 
which both the figures are separate, not one overlapping the other 
as on oer ‘ee The details of the peridiola are clearly shown on 
The two upper afte on the plate, ‘* Peziza crispa,” 
are nak G ot the original. There is an unnumbered and uncoloured 
proof plate in the Museum with the reference letters in in 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 
XXXV.—L’Héririer’s Boranican Works. 
Concernine L’Héritier’s life and tragic death the accounts given 
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by Cuvier (Mém aris, iv., E 
th (Rees’s Cyclopedia, xvii., 1811) probably tell nearly all 
there is portan t, so far as bota: r. n- 
