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Cooke’s ‘ Handbook,’ and rem sons gs of the insieeban of 
a 
presumed edibility of certain species, with which notes on edibility 
Dr. 
would pei in toto. Opinions will differ as to the 
utility of this work as a field-book; personally we doubt whether 
p 
it is possible for any bans r to e fungi with certainty in 
e a vidual species requires close and careful study 
in all stages of growth, and be examined many times 
is no real utility in supplying names to amateurs, for the names 
are forgotten as soon as heard, and the same species of fungus 1s 
Hay’s new venture, as an abbreviated form of one part o. 
Cooke’s ‘Handbook,’ may possibly help a few amateurs a little in 
a difficult study. We regret to see that the source whence the 
names for his at present — insasonl: larg 
ber of Mr. Hay’s so- walled edible species are — proper cee of 
food for even barbarians or savages. The new popular names are 
a droll satire on popular terminology. W.G.8 
a work of this kind should be done well than done —— The 
present part, besides concluding the Tortwacee and describing the 
one British species of Ehrhart’s Weberacee, contains a good deal of 
Sahin matter—a supplement of eleven omitted species or 
arieties, a list of addenda to the localities of rarer species, an 
alghabetics! index, and a classified list of the species contained in 
vol. i. May we not hope that Dr. Braithwaite will extend this list 
so as to form a — extelogue of British Mosses, which would 
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