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MYCOLOGIC ART. 
Tabulae Analytics Fungorum, by M. Patouillard. Fart i., 
8vo. Poligny. 100 figs. 
Fungi Agrumicoli, by Dr. 0. Penzig. 8vo. 136 plates. 
Padua. 
Figures Peintes de Champignons, by L. Lucand. Part iii., 
4to. 25 plates. 
Fungi Italici, by Prof. P. A. Saccardo, fasc xxix-xxxii. 
At no period, perhaps, during the past fifty years has illustrative 
art, as applied to Mycology, been so devoid of art as at the pre- 
sent time, if we may judge by the examples which have come 
under our notice. We have named four works above, of which 
certainly none pass beyond mediocrity, even if they attain it. In 
some the efforts at reproduction result in complete caricatures. 
Doubtless the authors themselves have a good opinion of their 
works, but most persons will regard that as an hallucination. The 
well-intentioned efforts of M. Patouillard have ended in the pro- 
duction of a number of very extraordinary outlines, drawn, it may 
be, from his inner consciousness, and especially in the case of Pis - 
tiliaria , of a very low grade of art. 
Dr. Penzig reprints, without any intimation that he is doing so, 
letterpress from one work without altering the paging, and illustra- 
tions from another. These are sold to unsuspecting victims as a 
new and original work, but when they arrive are found to be re- 
prints, of which one copy is quite sufficient. The execution is ex- 
ceedingly rough, and the colouring equal to the bright red and 
green examples of the artistic efforts of an infant school. 
The third part of Lucand’s Iconographie is no better than its 
predecessors. This part contains 25 plates, illustrating as many 
common and well-known species, and the price is thirty shillings. 
Its artistic merits are of a very low order, and by no means such as 
the purchaser would expect to get for his money. The work is 
announced as a continuation of the Champignons of Bulliard, but 
we venture to think that had it appeared in his day Bulliard would 
scarcely have felt flattered by the compliment. 
The “ Fungi Italici ” gives an immense number of figures. 
Some would wish that these were fewer in number if they were 
only better in quality. They are evidently in many cases intended 
rather to illustrate the author’s views as to what a species ought 
to be than what it is. As, for instance, in the so-called Cercospora 
vitis , the spores are turned topsy-turvy, and attached by the wrong 
end so as to justify its inclusion in Cercospora. If the figures are 
not very artistic, it would be some counterpoise if they made up 
by fidelity. 
