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not refer to either, but which combined some featm'es of both. 

 On submitting it to Mr. Berkeley, he pronounced it to be 

 exactly intermediate between the two. 



Cortinarius daricolor appeared in September 1875 in ground 

 which I had searched carefully for years. It is scarcely pos- 

 sible that I could have overlooked such a striking plant had it 

 existed there previously. I gathered it the same year at Mon- 

 creifife ; and daring the past season, besides finding it in the 

 original station here, I have gathered it at Kippendavic and 

 at Killin. It remains to be seen whether a fate, similar to 

 that which has befallen Ag. carbonaritis, is in store for it. 



Of older species mention may be made of Ag. cuciimis. In 

 his account of the Hereford meeting referred to above, Mr. 

 Worthington Smith speaks of it as "uncommon." It seems to 

 be more frequent in Scotland than in England. In a district 

 where I could scarcely have failed to note it, I picked up a 

 single small specimen two years ago ; but during the past 

 autumn, in various localities — all familiar ground previously — 

 I found it growing in abundance. Similar examples might 

 easily be multiplied. 



The foregoing remarks on the variableness in the recurrence 

 of species apply also to genera, though on the wider ground 

 the influence of seasonal changes becomes more intelligible. 



During 1875 I observed in the cases of Cortida ^nd Folypori 

 — especially resupinate Folypori — a very marked diminution as 

 compared with previous years. The same is to be noted of 

 Pezizce during 1876. At Hereford, Clavavice. seem to have 

 been totally absent. Both in England and Scotland, during 

 the past season, Cortmarii have not been nearly so numerous 

 as usual. 



On the whole the year past has been an unfavourable one 

 for the Mycologist. Hymmomycetes, especially, were late in 

 making their appearance — partly, doubtless, owing to the 

 drought of the early summer; and some genera were very 

 poorly represented, when compared with previous years. Un- 

 favourable, however, as the season has been, some additions 

 have been made to our Flora. But I must not anticipate the 

 reports of Messrs. Berkeley and Broome in the " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History," where these additions will be 

 duly recorded. 



Note. — In the identification of the rarer Fungi, I am not inclined to 

 regard "solitary," "caespitose," and "fasciculate," as descriptions to which 



