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flaps when cooked, but when dried and sliced, and duly prepared, 
became transformed into respectable razor-strops. We will conclude 
with an extract from the book which forms the basis of the above 
remarks, anent this species. “ I find that St. Maurice was in the 
habit of shaving, that he kept his razors in order upon a strop of 
the period, and that the said strop was made from a slice cut from 
the heart of a great fungus parasitic on trees. Now the Razor 
Strop Fungus in particular is Poly ponis squamosus, which, until 
better information reaches me, I shall hold to be St. Maurice’s 
Mushroom.” Oh, ye of little faith, wherefore will ye doubt. 
SACCARDO, SYLLOGE FUNGORUM. 
The following Appendix of 484 pages has just reached us. 
“ Additamenta ad Yol. i-iv, curantibus Doct. A. N. Berlese et P. 
Yoglino, Patavii, 1886.” Uniform in size and style with the four 
vols. of the “ Sylloge.” Of course it is indispensable to all who pos- 
sess the original work, for which it contains numerous corrections 
as well as additions. 
INDEX LICHENUM BRITANNICORUM. 
( According to the most recent Nylanderian Arrangement.) 
By the Rev. J. M. Crombie, F.L.S. 
PART I. ( Concluded ). 
Series IV. Phyllodei, Nyl. 
Tribe XIII. PARHXELIEI, Nyl. 
Genus I. E verni a ( Ach .), Nyl. 
Sp. 1 E. prunastri (L.), Ach. 
f. 1, retusa, Ach. 
ft. stictocera (Sm.), Cromb. 
2 E. furfuracea (A.), Fr. 
f. 1. scobicina (Ach.), Nyl. 
2, ceratea (Ach.), Nyl. 
Genus II. Parmelia (Ach.), Nyl. 
* Hyporhizia, Cromb. 
A. Glaucescentes. 
Sp. 1 P. perlata (L.), Ach. 
* P. ciliata (Schcer.), Nyl. 
2 P. certrarioides (Del.), Nyl. 
3 P. olivetorum (Ach.), Nyl. 
4 P. perforata (Wulf.) Ach. 
5 P. laevigata (Sm.), Ach. 
6 P. xanthomyela, Nyl. 
