252 ILLUSTRATIONS OF BRITISH FUNGI. 
Littleton Brown, who helped Dillenius in preparing the ‘ Historia 
M rum,’ and is styled by Sherard ‘the keenest botanist I have 
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as having joined Dillenius and Brewer in Shropshire (of which 
county he was a native), but his connection with Oxfordshire 
botany was probably too slight to entitle him to a more extended 
notice. 
Mr. Boswell contributes a valuable Appendix devoted to the 
Mosses and Hepatic; and there are also lists, admittedly very 
incomplete, also of Fungi and Lichens. 
The list of corrections, large as it is, is not exhaustive: on 
p. 281 ‘ Napford” should be ‘ Naphill”; M. Gandoger’s initial is 
““M.” not “Cl” (p. 1); Mr. Melvill’s name has no final e; and 
others might be cited. 
Illustrations of British Fungi (Hymenomycetes). To serve as an Atlas 
to the ‘ Handbook of British Fungi.’ By M. CO. Cooxz, M.A., 
LUL.D., A.L.S. Vols. I., I1., IfI., and IV. 8vo. Williams 
& Norgate. London, 1881-1886. 
ons.are most provokingly inadequate. The small number con- 
tained in Greville’s ‘ Scottish Cryptogamic Flora’ are equally good, 
ne ing. onl 
t. Th 
figures in Mrs. Hussey’s expensive work display great artistic 
merit, with considerable care in giving details, but the work as a 
_ them being searce and expensive, while the others are utterly in- 
_ adequate to meet the wants of the time. It is obvious, therefore, 
= | not have appeared more opportunely or been less in fear of rivalry. 
* Richardson’s ‘ Correspondence,’ 233. 
