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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
: Britisn Foner. 
Outlines of British Fungology, Supplement. By Worrsineton G. 
Hs -(L. Reeve: 1891). 8vo, pp. xii. 886. Price 12s. 
British Fungi. Phycomycetes and Ustilaginee. By Gerorce 
Massez. (L. Reeve: 1891). 8vo, pp. xv. 282, 8 plates. 
Price 
British Edible Fungi. By M. GC. Cooxe. (Kegan Paul & Co.: 1891). 
8vo, pp. 237, 12 plates. Price 6s. 
Ar this time of year it is only reasonable that we should expect 
e appearance of new books on i i 
is certainly no other branch of Botany so fertile in the matter 
of books. Students of Algw subsist on papers and lists of species 
for the most part (and these are increasingly numerous), but the 
mycologist has a library of books at hand. 
Mr. Worthington Smith’s volume is most heartily welcome. It 
was a happy thought to bring up to date that old-established 
favourite, Berkeley’s Outlines, the very book of which students of 
Fungi have the most pleasant memories. To no one living could 
this task have fallen more appropriately than to Mr. Smith, whose 
best work has been done in this group, and whose admirable 
illustrations have delighted so many students. The additional 
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again, and Mr. Smith’s volume in point of fact attains the position 
recorded and described, and those which are to be found in the 
to the page at which they are to found in the Outlines. This 
plan makes the present volume the w rking one, and the Outlines 
mains for referen feat of value to Londoners is the 
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citation of the Epping Forest species. If it were not presumptuous 
on my part, I should like to say how thoroughly this has been 
done, but Mr. Smith’s reputation as an authority on the larger 
Fungi is so far beyond the reach of my praise or blame that readers 
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British species of the Basidiomycetes, for exhibition in the gallery 
mt ve Departm eat a - abeody well advanced, and students 
of fungi may confidently orward to th j t of this 
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might have been w king in collusion. It includes oups 
b interest to the microscopist, and his treatment. of 
especially valuable. His volume is prefaced by an 
