SYNOPSIS OF THE BRITISH BASIDIOMYCETES 35 
Collybia esculenta Wulf., tenacella Pers., stolonifera Jungh., and 
FE Quél., Worthington Smith still 
etains under the Lactipedes section, but Quélet transfers this 
species to the Adonidee with Fries as the authority, and he is 
justified in this arrangement because the stem is practically juice- 
less. Psalliota echinata Quél., Quélet has rightly assigned to 
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had been altered by the editor to Agaricus (Flammula) rubicundula 
R mula rubicundula Rea in the then current 
issue of Berrow’s Worcester Journal, which was subsequently 
incorporated in vol. i. of the Transactions of the W 
shire Naturalists’ Club, p. 394. Hypholoma pseudostorea Rea 
was never so published but by Worthington Smith in Journ. Bot. 
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Rea was based on specimens submitted to the Kew authorities 
who declared it undescribed, but we now know that it is only a 
form of Russula sardonia Fr. 
The book is got-up in excellent style, with numerous woodcuts 
representing the genera, and the species are enumera ed consecu- 
tively, thus enabling a student to make it the basis of his collection 
of specimens or paintings. It thus forms a welcome addition to 
the Museum Catalogues. Cac aeok fou 
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note appended to the book, which explains its origin and scope :— 
ters of each genus. In 1 t rustees gave permission for 
their publication in the form of the present Handbook, which it 
