GUIDE TO SOWERBY’S MODELS OF BRITISH FUNGI 399 
n the second volume, which Dr. Euler promises without pro- 
longed delay, the subject will be treated more broadly, and from a 
LRG. 
Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi in the Department of 
Botany, ae oe um (Natural Histo By WorrtHING- 
TON GreoRGE SmitTH, F.L.S. Second Edition, revised. 8yo, 
pp. 85, OL rt in itdiek, Price 4d. 
An editorial note informs us that “the first edition of this 
Guide was issued in 1893 and was reprinted without alteration in 
e present edition has been carefully revised with the 
assistance of the author, and a glossary has been added.” e 
large and continued demand for this little work i is sufficient testi- 
mony to its value. It is much more than a guide to a series of 
models; it is at once the sinapleat” and most co mprehensive intro- 
continental brethren in their appreciation of this difficult branch 
of botany, and it is to the life-long labour of Mr. W. G. Smith and 
a few other devoted mycologists that we owe our present advance 
knowledge of British forms. The Guide is strictly confined to 
species represented by models, but these are all more or less 
familiar f The Agaricacee receive most attention, as it is 
fication s edulis and Fistulina hepatica are the onl 
embers of the Polyporacee that are u s esculents in this 
country, and the properties of these and of all our edible forms 
are plainly set forth. The models were intended by Sowerby to 
instruct the public in the <9 of what was suitable for food | 
among fungi, and the Guide ob hein by Mr. Smith, illustrated as 
it is by excellent es the intention still further. 
glossary of technical terms adds t to the value of this edition. 
