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In Syme's " English Botany " the type is considered to 

 be sub-glabrous ; but the characters for var. montana do not 



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agree with those quoted by Kerner. In fact, A. montana, 

 Willd., seems to recede from the type in one direction, as 

 var. glabra does in the other. 



I do not find that our British A. mtlgaris has the stem 

 and calyx-tips glabrous, as Kerner describes. Usually scat- 

 tered hairs, more or less numerous, are found on them. 



I might add that in the first edition of Flora Anglica 

 Hudson had a species, A. minor, based on Tournefort's plant, 

 and gives Westmoreland as a locality. In the second 

 edition of the same book, p. 71, he reduces it to a variety 

 of A. vulgaris, L. ; but there is no proof or probability that 

 this is identical with the plant Willdenow called A. mon- 

 tana. It was probably the small form, not by any means 

 confined to mountain districts, since I have seen it in pas- 

 tures in the midland counties. 



PEZIZA AMMOPHILA, D. AND M. 

 By JAMES W. H. TRAIL, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. 



THIS species of fungus appears to be so local that com- 

 paratively few mycologists have had the opportunity of 

 observing it in its native habitats. These are such as to 



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appear very unpromising to the seeker after the fleshy fungi, 

 being the dry sands close to the upper limits of the tide- 

 mark, or the adjacent sandhills ; while the late season of the 

 year during which it appears (September to November) 

 renders such localities but little attractive to botanists in 

 quest of the higher plants. It is probably often overlooked, 

 despite its being one of our largest Pezizse ; and it may be 

 a good deal less rare than it is commonly supposed to be. 

 Probably a search for it in the suitable localities and at the 

 proper season would disclose its presence in places where it 

 was not previously suspected to occur. 



For some years I have had the opportunity of becoming 

 familiar with the plant and of following it through its various 

 changes of form. 



