SOWERBY'S MODELS OF BRITISH FUNGI. 231 



Vittaria lineata Sw. (V. fiexuosa Fee; V. japonica Miguel). 

 Mount Omei, 4000 ft., Faber i020. 



Acrostichum flayelliferum Wall. Mount Omei, 2500 ft., Faber 

 1042. 



Psilotum triquetrum Sw. Yang-tze-kiang, Faber 1102. 



Lycopodium clavatum L., var. L. divaricatum Wall. Mount 

 Omei, 8000 ft., Faber 1105. The common East Himalayan form 

 of the species. — L. annotinum L. Summit of Mount Omei, Faber 

 1097. — L. serration Thunb. Mount Omei, Faber 1100, 1101. 

 Province of Kiu-kiang, Faber 1099. 



Selaginella plnmosa Baker. Ichang, Henry 3488. — 5. canaliculata 

 Baker. Mount Omei, Faber 1104. — S. cauleseens Spring. Ichang, 

 Henry 3595.— S. Braunii Baker. Mount Omei, Faber 1103. — S. 

 Savatieri Baker. Ichang, Henry 3596. A rare Japanese species, 

 now found for the first time in China. 



A-.olla pinnata R. Br. Ichang, Henry 3977. 



Equisetum ramosissimum Desf. Wushan Gorge, Faber 583. — 

 E. diffusion D. Don. Mount Omei, 3000 ft., Faber 1106. A com- 

 mon Himalayan species, now found in China for the first time. 



It will be noted that in the mountains of West China there are 

 species of every range of climate from thoroughly tropical types, such 



as Acrostichum fiagell if erum and Gymnoyramme involuta, up to boreal 

 types, such as Cryptoyramme crispa and Lycopodium annotinum. No 



doubt a great many more Himalayan species and new endemic 

 species will reward the researches of the energetic collectors who 

 are engaged in exploring this rich and, till very lately, almost 



unknown botanifi.il reoirm. 



SOWERBY'S MODELS OF BRITISH FUNGI. 



By Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S. 



During the spring of the present year the whole of Sowerby's 

 Models of Fungi, belonging to the Department of Botany, British 

 Museum, South Kensington, have (after thorough cleaning) been 

 painted in oils by me. Previous to this the naming was in an unsatis- 

 factory state, not only on account of the now more or less obsolete 

 nomenclature used by Sowerby, but also on account of several 

 curiously erroneous names, supplied in times long past by persona 

 unacquainted with fungi. The models were in a very mutilated 

 state, and owing to various slnftings and removals certain examples 

 had got free from the stands ; in the attempt to rep ace these, 

 sometimes specimens had got lost or curiously misplaced, and 

 different species were, in some instances, placed m company, and 

 made to do service for a single species. There can be no doubt 

 that the Sowerby collection is somewhat incomplete, and tins is not 

 to be wondered at, for many of the models are formed of such ^dry 

 and brittle materials (as pipe-clay), that if dropped by an at endant 

 lor nervous mycologist) on to the floor, nothing would be iett but 



