THE FUNGUS-HUNTER’S GUIDE. 
are quite distinct in structure. The second group, in which there 
is not ete a rudimentary pistil in the male flowers, is subdivided 
into six sections. In other words, there are seven sections altogether. 
s King observes, these sections are not all equally natural. The 
most natural of all perhaps is 2 ‘ostigma, of which sixty-six species 
are om described and fi This section is distinguished by 
having male, gall, and Seale Secon in the same oe and 
ssc Sei ch familiar species as F’. bengalensis, F. ‘indie en- 
jamina, F. religiosa a, and F’, infectoria 
The remaining sections, which collectively comprise a large 
saan of species, present two main distinctions. Synecia has 
male and gall flowers in one set of pr ears and fertile female 
and scwtcr flowers (having no trace of sexual organs) in another 
set of receptacles ; while Beste, rte Eusyce, and Neomorphe 
differ from Synecia in having no neuter flowers, and from each 
other in the number of stamens in the male huecurs and the position 
of the receptacles. 
Descending to species, Dr. King finds his distinctive characters 
in the leaves and receptacles; the primary divisions in his clavis 
being founded on the relative length and thickness of the petioles, 
which is a better distinetion than it looks on paper. The book is a 
large quarto and every species is figured natural size, and some 
striking varieties aria a second plate. Dissections are given o 
most species, four plates being poem cafe to the floral frog 
ture of the species of the section 7 rostt. 
from living plants, there can no ons respecting their 
usefulness ed we may safely assert that he species 
are determinable from fi es and tex ough some botanists 
e printing w: 
blemishes. We notie es 
 pedicillate,” but such a word as “referrible” could hardly have 
been intentional. WB: 
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The eee s Guide. By W. Dz Liste Hay, F.R.G.S. 
London: Swan a & Co. 
Tus little volume ig designed as a field pocket-book for amateur 
: mycologists, to aid on spot in the identification of the larger 
fungi. It is a supplement to Mr. De Lisle Hay’s larger work, men- 
tioned in these pages a month or two ago. It is founded on Dr. 
