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introduction to the study of Fungi, dealing with their morphology, 
distribution, collection, preservation, and methods of examination, 
ae a section on classification. Especially in this portion Mr. 
see speaks out the faith that is in him (pp. 64 and 65), and I 
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assee’s excellent apewrgin nd good descriptions are 
a welcome addition to our literature, and the present writer can say 
thing more significant of his opinion than that mycology will be 
well served by further volumes dealing with the remaining groups, 
especially the Ascomycetes 
One cannot help looking somewhat askance at tea on Edible 
F 0 n poisonous Fungi one can un and, and like- 
wise volumes on indigestible Fungi with an ap made containing 
an account of the few forms that are a only coms but good to 
eat. Tastes and digestions are we to differ. I knew a 
a brightly- Shem little Hook. As has just hile said, tastes differ, 
but I cannot help wondering why Dr. Cooke has never tried the 
common mushroom. He gives a list in his book, in which those 
Fungi he has eaten are marked with an asterisk ; and the common 
mushroom, it seems, is tees those the veteran has either despised 
or not found. This is a pleasure yet in ya) hich him. ell 
to have a guide of pales. in these 
would have done still better than he has Pas T peas to think, 
if he had included notice of the deadly sorts for contrast, as in Mr. 
Worthington Smith’s well-known and useful Mushrooms and Toad- 
stools. It would have been a great convenience for those who are 
to use this book if names h een given to the figures on the 
plates, since these occur in no particular sequence, and without 
reference to the ee letterpress. In a number of cases, such 
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panies it” TOutlin’s p- re In view bee, the fact that this book will 
be used by the public, rather than by botanical experts, every aid 
to identification and every reasonable warning should be carefull, 
Lactarius piperatus and L. controversus? They appear without an 
asterisk in the list at the end, but, though Dr. Cooke has not eaten 
them himself, it would surely not have been difficult for an to 
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almost wooden in consistency. Yet Dr. Cooke is 
content to say of L. controversus that it is “rather deficient in 
