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“ In certain localities huncheds of thousands of acres have 
been converted into desert by the wholesale destruction of 
the forest. In other localities hundreds of thousands of acres 
would from the same cause now be utterly unproductive but 
for the planting of foreign trees, such as Logwood and 
Mango. In consequence of the facility with which land is 
everywhere available in Jamaica, the peasantry cut down 
annually 40,000 acres of forest land and thick bush, in which 
to plant yams and other provisions. Innumerable timber 
trees, young and old, are thus yearly destroyed. These 
clearances are made in the most seasonable districts, and in 
many instances the excessive rainfall in such districts is per¬ 
ceptibly diminished in consequence of the large extent of 
these clearances. No conservation of the forest having ever 
been attempted here, the result is, as regards timber, that the 
resources of the island are practically nil. There is indeed 
some timber in the inaccessible hills of the interior. 
“ Nearly all the timber required for building purposes, the 
annual value of which amounts to about T50,000, is imported 
into the island. Even the sleepers lately used for laying down 
the few miles of tramway in and near Kingston were im¬ 
ported. The unproductiveness of the island in timber is to 
be further deplored when our luxuriant tropical resources are 
borne in mind, and also when it is remembered that only 
one-thirtieth of the island is devoted to agriculture. In the 
event of any considerable advancement in the prosperity of 
the island a very large expenditure would be entailed for the 
importation of timber.”— Thomson , in Kew Report, 1877, p. 43. 
(To be continued.) 
THE FUNGI OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY W. B. GROVE, B.A., AND J. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. 
(Continued from page 181.) 
Sub-genus VII. —Mycena. 
103. Ag. purus, Fers. Ag. roseus, With., Purt. Woods and 
plantations. Sept.-Oct. Plantations, Edgbaston, 
With., 253. Oversley Lane, Purt., ii., 643. Oversley 
Wood; Ragley Wood, Purt., iii., 224. Kenilworth, 
Sep., 1849, Russell, Illustr. Hopsford, near Brinklow, 
Adams. Marston Green ; Trickley Coppice ; New Park 
Middleton ; in a copse at Kenilworth. 
