discourse pronounced in praise of a person deceased, at the ceremony of his funeral.

This custom is very ancient, both among the Greeks and Romans. Before the company departed from the sepulchre, they were often entertained with a panegyric upon the dead person, always pronounced by a near relation, or one of the public magistrates.

Fungi (from ευγύς, fungus), one of the seven families or tribes of the vegetable kingdom, according to Linnæus, comprehending all those who are of the mushroom kind, and which in Tournefort constitute the 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th genera of the first section in the class xvii.