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REVIEWS. 
EDIBLE AND Porsonous FuNGI. 
Edible and Poisonous Fungi. With 25 Coloured Plates. 8vo, 
p. 28. Price 1s. Office of Board of Agriculture, Whitehall 
Place, S.W. 
[True ee False Mushrooms ; being a] Guide to Mr. Worthington 
Smith’s Drawings of Field and Cultivated Mushrooms and 
Poisonous or Worthless Fungi often toad for Mushrooms 
Natural History). Pp. 24. Two folding plates. Price 
illing. 
HE almost simultaneous issue of two popular guide-books 
dealing with larger fungi in pd ee aspect pagers that 
these neglected members o ve flora are beginning to 
receive the attention that is their ius. Not that they have been 
ere Tr 
ta y room for more popular literature, and we need not complain 
if ah — Seba xp supply i 
o be presumed that the Sik that these are official publi- 
‘abota. account rea ie mystery which attends their production. 
vain to discover the authorship of the first; “ the 
eee es wings,” we are told, ‘were prepared by Mr. Geo eorge 
with the > of Miss Ivy raga’ but we find no 
olk must go to Cromwell Road to get it—a further sbeceakie 
connected with British Museum publications bene e oun they are 
not to be obtained at each of the two centres 
South Kensington. We say must go, for ae is oe 3 initiation 
of postal address, or of the amount to be sent for postage—we 
believe the gen erosity of the Dublin Museum in sending its 
publications post-free is not emulated by the wealthier London 
a 
fu 
ritish Museum Guides, c eap and excellent as many of them 
are, is reduced by or through the: difficulty first of ascer- 
taining their existence, for they are seldom noticed in the — 
prints, and next of procuring them when their existence has 
Nor is this the only evidence that the Trustees are singularly 
unversed in the ways of ordinary publishers, on it may be 
