Mar., 1891. 
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The result of our study, too, is full of helpful encourage¬ 
ment. The pessimist may talk of the world as hopeless, and 
life as dark and dismal, but the Sociologist recalls his know¬ 
ledge of what the world has been, contrasts the present with 
the past, and feels inclined to echo with Homer’s hero, “ We 
are thankful to Heaven that we are worth infinitely more 
than those that went before us.” Certainly we know enough 
of the past and present history of mankind to believe that our 
highest ideal of human perfection is but the prophecy of the 
coming man, to whom duty will be instinctive, and whose law 
will be, in very deed, the law of righteousness. All the facts 
of Sociology emphasise the truth of what George Eliot says :— 
“ The faith that life on earth is being shaped 
To glorious ends ; that order, justice, love, 
Mean man’s completeness, mean effect as sure 
As roundness in the dewdrop : that great faith 
Is but the rushing and expanding stream 
Of thought and feeling fed by all the Past.” 
May not the student of Sociology add, with the Poet- 
Laureate— 
“ My faith is large in time, and that which 
Shapes it to some perfect end?” 
THE FUNGI OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY W. B. GROVE, M.A., AND J. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. 
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Genus XIII. LENTINUS. Fr. 
480. L. tigrinus, Fr. Ag. tigrinus, With., 155. Packington 
Park, amongst moss, With. 
481. L. lepideus, Fr. Fine specimens of this species abundant 
in a cellar at SellyOak, growing on the rafters of the 
floor above. Selly Oak is in Worcestershire; but 
what is believed to have been a monstrous form occurred 
in a wine cellar at Edgbaston, and in a manufactory in 
the heart of Birmingham. 
482. L. adhserens, Fr. Ag. adheesivus, With., Purt. Sept. 
Red Rock Plantation, Edgbaston, With., 158. Ragley 
Park, Purt. iii., 187. 
483. L. cochleatus, Fr. Ag. cornucopioides, Purt. Sept.-Oct. 
Ragley Woods, Mrs. Buford in Purt. iii., 190. Trickley 
Coppice ; New Park, Middleton. 
484. L. flabelliformis, Fr. Ag. reniformis , Purt. June. 
Wixford, Purt. ii., 658. 
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