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120 BRITISH ORCHIDS. 
author is oi green much puzzled by the difference between 
eileen deep purple or port-wine flowers; and that ‘all speci- 
with spotted leaves and variously Sofotted (usually lighter) 
O. maculata”! That Mr. Webster has not kept himself quite 
au courant wit th the progress of English Botany is evident by his 
stating that Epipogum has not t been found again since its first 
discovery as a British plant at Tedstone Delamere: readers of this 
Journal will eat = has occurred at least three times in quite 
a ene, locality s 
With respect to "the illustrations, it would have been better to 
m ller 
to see an unrecognisable figure of Liparis Towslit reproduced, in 
which the flowers look more like those of an Ophrys than anything 
else. These details could easily be altered in a new edition, and 
we hope that Mr. Webster will not only further experiment in the 
soe hs of the British Orchids, but will try what can be done 
other European species, of which there are so many exquisite 
ones almost unknown to the gardening public. H.N.R. 
Teat-book of bain Fungi. By W. De Listz Hay, F.R.G.S. 
n Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. 
Tuts is one ye - most curious books we have seen for a long 
time: it i - in no sense what it purports to be, viz., a Text-book of 
British Fungi, and as regards the advertised ‘‘100 plates and 
onal there are but 64 ‘‘ plates’ in the work, and these ‘‘ plates” 
only a curious patchwork production, consisting entirely of 
little posers cuts from Cooke’s ‘Handbook of British Fungi.’ 
It is needless to say that these small and old cuts are now quite out 
of date and next to ena ot they are noes quite Ms daarers in 
the book before us, for s veral well-known errors hay t been 
rrected, and some of the cuts are priate sear sean nly 
Gi olrotions: of a few of the larger fungi are referred to in the letter- 
press, and all illustrations of the minor fungi are entirely ignored. 
Only the larger fungi are indexed, and these no t under the old and 
extremely cavanted ‘“‘ popular” 
names. The index i = gy palling less than a satire upon popular 
names, for we hav it the “ Wrinkletwig, ” the * Jellysprout,” 
the “ Thimblofingat’” and the “ Rootingshan k.” One almost 
fancies he is reading Dickens, and looks down the index expecting 
to see the ‘‘ Turveydrop,” the «« Pumblechook’’ and the ‘‘ Chuzzle- 
wit,” or perhaps Lewis Carroll’s ‘‘ Jabberwock.’’ One can imagine 
the effect these names would have at a «Paige Foray,” or rather - 
" Fungus Farce,” where one amateur would point out the “ ona 
Bulgar,’ another the “ Conch, acahied the ‘ Guiltysprout,” 
fourth the * Striped Stamp-tlap, z as so on for about 250 names. 
