An History of Fungusses, growing about Halifax (Vols 1-2)

the plant, with its radical cord, both the first and second year. Its time is in October.

The second volume will contain the remainder of the Agarics, with the three succeeding genera: the Boletus, Hydnum, and Phallus.

The third will contain the other seven: the Clathrus, Helvella, Peziza, Clavaria, Lycoperdon, Sphaeria, and Mucor; many of which, being small objects, will be engraved several on a plate.

To many of the plants figured and described here, I have not been able to apply the synonyma Synonyma: equivalent names used by other authors of authors, because I had not an opportunity of perusing their works; therefore, any communications from botanists which may assist me in applying those synonyma, particularly those of SCHOEFFER (whose valuable work I never saw), will be thankfully acknowledged.

*** The reader is desired to observe that the description and the drawing were not always taken from the same specimen—the perishable nature of the plant often not admitting it; and where the figure does not exactly coincide with the description in regard to the precise hue of color, it is because so much variation prevailed between the individual which was described and the individual which was painted.