
          Hymenomycetes Britannici by the
Rev John Stevenson with illustrations in two
Volumes. Vol I  Agaricus & Bolbitius.
William Blackwood and Sons Edinburgh & London
1886. pp. 372.

The first volumes of the Stevensons book
has at last appeared and will be
received by one British Student of Mycology as
a boon [crossed out: fn a] manuals as hitherto to
the descriptions of our Hymenomycetes 
have been scattered without order in
various publications. The Main idea of this 
work undoubtedly is to give the English
speaking student of fungi in his own language
an accurate translation or rather “an interpretation
of the mind of [Elias] Fries” With this 
object Mr Stevenson has availed himself of 
the description in the Hymenomycetes Europei
as a basis and has incorporated with these
not only the fuller details given in the
Monographia but also whatever information
in contained in the smaller works of Fries
        