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handles are so large and so elaborately carved as to render 
the adzes quite useless, though they have become very 
beautiful pieces of workmanship. These are kept as purely 
ceremonial emblems of authority, after the manner of our 
own state and civic maces. 
In studying the origin and characteristics of savage art 
it is convenient to separate sculpture, or solid representation, 
from outline delineation, although the two forms, especially 
in their early history, are so nearly allied. It is generally 
allowed that sculpture was probably the earliest means 
employed for representing such natural objects as animals 
and men ; outline drawing upon flat surfaces being of sub¬ 
sequent invention. Man, long before the art of decoration 
entered into the category of his accomplishments, was already 
familiar with fashioning the forms of his tools in various 
materials, and was therefore well acquainted with the working 
of rough materials into desired shapes. It is moreover certain 
that to the uneducated eye a solid object, representing some 
familiar thing, appeals far more readily than an outline drawing 
of the same, as the latter leaves so much to the imagination, 
and requires therefore a greater intellectual effort to grasp. 
The creation, therefore, of the germ of realistic art maybe 
said to have taken place when Man’s attention was first drawn 
to the accidental similarity of some natural or artificial object 
to some well-known form, such as that of a familiar animal, 
for example. As I have before said, there is far more reason 
to believe that art owes its origin to accident in this manner 
than that it is the direct outcome of the intelligence, the 
application of matured reasoning. 
( To be continued.) 
THE FUNGI OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY W. B. GROVE, M.A., AND J. E. BAGNALL, A.L.S. 
(Continued from page 228, Vol. XII.) 
Sub-genus XXXII. —Psilocybe. 
271. Ag. sarcocephalus, Fr. Very rare in England. At 
base of trunks, Crackley Wood, Kenilworth, Sep., 
1885, Cooke, lllustr., pi. 620. 
272. Ag. ericseus, Fers. Pastures; rare. Aug.-Oct. Field, 
Birmingham Road, Kenilworth, Bussell, Illustr. Sutton 
Park, Oct., 1883, Cooke, Trickley Coppice. 
273. Ag. udus, Fers. Boggy places. Rare. Sept. Sutton 
Park ; New Park, Middleton ; Coleshill Pool ; Wyndley 
Pool; Trickley Coppice ; Four-Oaks. 
