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be made in like manner, with either of the sections. This would 
represent the cut surface, or section through the centre of the 
fungus. In this case, also, some details will have to be added by 
hand. If the stem is hollow, that hollow must he drawn, so again 
a curved line from the stem to the edge of the cap, showing where 
the gills join the flesh, and consequently the width of the gills, 
especial attention being given to the manner in which the gills are 
attached to, or free from, the stem. The colour of the gills, and 
also of the flesh, can be added. This method will give two repre- 
sentations, one of the external appearance of the mushroom when 
growing, the other of a longitudinal section through the centre. 
All that remains to be done will be to add the name, the place 
where found, and the date. Other particulars which are not re- 
presented in the drawing would be added in writing, viz. : If 
growing on the ground, or on wood ; if dry, or viscid ; if with any 
odour, or none ; if pleasant to the taste, or tasteless ; and the 
colour of the spores, bearing in mind as of the utmost importance 
whether the stem is solid or hollow, and how the gills approach the 
stem. By following these instructions a person wholly unpractised 
in drawing may in a little time make excellent, though perhaps 
formal, sketches, and ultimately acquire sufficient confidence and 
power over the hand to execute freehand drawings without the 
tracing, although the tracing will always probably be acceptable 
for obtaining the section. No one need make the excuse that they 
are unable to execute drawings of Agaricus when this purely 
mechanical method is capable of being adopted, and if any artistic 
feeling is present in the operator it will soon be manifest in the 
sketches, which will cease to become mechanical. 
M. 0. C. 
OMITTED DIAGNOSES. 
We fail to find the following in Saccardo’s Sylloge. 
Feziza obvelata ( De Lacr.). Rabenhorst , Fungi Furopaei , No. 432 . 
Ascomatibus sub epidermide nidulantibus, inter nervos foliorum 
seriatis, approximatis, rarissime confluentibus, ceraceo-mollibus, 
minutissimis, ore subconstrictis, parum apertis, primo rubellis, dein 
fuscescentibus, disco concolore thecas octosporas 004 m.m. longas, 
0*005 m.m. latas fovente ; sporis ovatis, obtusis, biocellatis, 0*008 
m.m. longis, 0*002 m.m. latis. Hypophylla, sub-epidermoidea, ad 
Caricem hirtam Sti Romani ad Vigennam in territorio pictav. 
legebat de Lacroix, pater. 
Sphaeria (subtectae) Juniperi (Duly). Klot. Herb. Myc ., No. 1833 . 
Sparsa aut gregaria rarius conferta epidermide fissa primo tecta 
dein in omnino expulsa nuda receptaculis atrobrunneis globosis 
opacis superficialibus, ostiolo minutissimo, thecis grossis clavatis 
