PREFACE.
The object of this Work is to furnish materials for the correct
determination of the larger British Fungi, and such only as require
nothing more than a common lens for their examination.
In consequence, all microscopic details have, as far as it was
possible, been avoided, though to meet the wishes of several
scientific friends, a complete list of the more minute species
is appended, together with references by which the places in
which those species which have been determined as British
since the publication of the ‘ English Flora,' are recorded or
described, may he readily found. A Glossary of the less
familiar terras, and a list of most of the authors referred to
in the descriptive part, have been added, in the hope that
they may prove useful to students.
Those persons who may wish hereafter to extend their researches,
will find that they have made a good beginning by
the study of the larger species, the determination of which,
properly conducted, will prepare them for a much more correct
appreciation of the limits within which the more obscure
Fungi are comprised. The contrary practice of empirically