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Again, “ 919, T. deliquescens ,” would, no doubt, include Dacryomyces 
stillatus ; but as Bulliard’s figure shows that it certainly does not 
exclude D. deliquescens, Abbot’s reference may be accepted as a 
record for that. A similar remark may be made of “991, 
A. verrucosus .” Although only Curtis’s central figure is A. rubescens, 
the citation may be taken as a record for that species, whatever 
other species may have been included under the same name. 
When Mr. Hamson requested me to revise this part of “Flora 
Bedfordiensis,” I had already undertaken a similar task with 
regard to Withering’s “Arrangement,” so far as concerns the 
Warwickshire records. The two pursuits supplemented and aided 
each other, since many of Abbot’s diagnoses are copied directly 
from Withering. But it does not follow that the species intended 
by Abbot is in all such cases that which Withering had in view. 
Abbot usually cites only one figure under each head, although it is 
clear that he possessed some of the other figures which Withering 
quotes. We infer that he cites only the figure which most strongly 
resembled his specimens ; and thus his references are usually free 
from the ambiguity which so often confuses those of Withering. 
So much to explain the method adopted here. The genera 
“ Tremella ” and “ Byssus ” have, of course, been joined with 
the Fungi. The species have been divided into five classes, 
according to the probability of their identification. 
A. —Species identifiable with great probability. These 
number 203 out of the nearly 300 species recorded by Abbot. 
B. —Species identifiable with less probability. These number 
twenty-four, and might almost have been included in 
Class A. 
C. —Ambiguous cases, where the fungus may be one of several 
nearly allied forms, which in Abbot’s time were not dis¬ 
tinguished sufficiently from one another. These are rather 
numerous, being as many as thirty-five. 
D. —Doubtful or indeterminable, from insufficient or contra¬ 
dictory data. Of these there are seventeen. 
E. —Excluded species, viz., such as are really algae or 
lichens, or mere mycelial states, or insect productions. Of 
these there are fifteen. 
September, 1893. 
