Die Pilze Nord-Deutschland mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Silesiens

Abstract

THE mycologist has no reason to complain that he has not ample opportunities for identifying the various objects which fall into his hands, if he has but patience and book-learning enough to enable him to avail himself of all the various sources of information. There are not only abundant collections of dried specimens, like those of Rabenhorst, Fückel, and others, on the Continent, with others at home, but every day is bringing forward some new publication of greater or less excellence, with figures illustrative of obscure, or little known species, as well as those which are of more general occurrence. In that most difficult department, the Hyrnenomycetes, he has a host of excellent figures in Krombholz, more recent copies of which are, unfortunately, by no means equal to the original, while the analyses, for the most part, are unsatisfactory, and sometimes altogether deceptive. Eight numbers have already appeared of the Icones by Fries, which have all the advantage of coming from the author himself of nearly half of the species which are contained in the Epicrisis, a new edition of which is now in the press, including all the more recent additions, and which is proceeding with a rapidity which is somewhat wonderful, since the Prince of Mycologists is at least an octogenarian. It would be easy to mention other important works still in progress both in this country and abroad, but amongst them not the least so is the one whose title is given above, though from its nature the progress must, unfortunately, be somewhat slow. The first part now before us contains figures and analyses of twenty-six species in six plates, with descriptive letterpress, and two parts at least are promised every year.

Die Pilze Nord-Deutschland mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Silesiens.

Beschrieben von Otto Weberbauer Heft. I. mit sechs nach der Natur gezeichneten colorirten Tafeln. (Breslau: Kern; London: Williams and Norgate.)