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in thickness (f. 1). Only two or three specimens of this 

 fungus were found and they were all of the same type. 

 Ilydnum coralloides Scop, was found growing about nor- 

 mally upon a number of the timbers. Hydnum artocreas 

 Berk, was found somewhat sparingly upon the bark of a 





HYDNUM ERINACEUS FROM CLAY 



few of the oak timbers in a single mine. This fungus is 



apparently rare in this country. 



A number of edible fungi were also found growing in the 

 mines. Several groups of sporophores of Coprinus 

 tarius (Bull) Fr. were found growing upon the clay at the 



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