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pollard oak and hornbeam, where bramble and 

 blackthorn scrub gave place to an undergrowth of 

 bracken, and where progress was easier and less 

 irksome, we gathered as we went anything and every- 

 thing in the shape of fungus we could see, retaining, 

 however, only two or three specimens of each kind. 

 From the "King's Oak," near High Beech, the high 

 road to Epping traverses the very heart of the forest : 



hence it is not far from an ancient intrenchment, 

 called " Amesbury Banks," and whence we retraced 

 our steps through dense thickets and interminable 

 groves of lopped beech and other trees, until we 

 reached the picturesque slope which rises behind 

 Loughton. 



As anticipated, the heavy rains of August had 

 i produced a more than usual abundant crop of fungi ; 



"m 



lift 



Fig. 213. Bulbous Stem and 

 waned Cuticle of .-J. [Ama- 

 nita) Ccciliie. 



Fi 



Fig. 211. Ring, Bulbous 

 Stem, and Volva of A . 

 [Amanita) fihalloides. 



Fig. 212. Cuticle of 

 A. {Amanita) ru- 



\ bescens, showing 

 the scattered mealy 

 warts of the cuticle. 



Fig. 215. Floc- 



cose Trama of 



a I Cortinarius 



r. .. c (Trichloma) 



y. 214. Section of '•-/___ „ 



* c . f c . e viotaceus. 



nstulose Stems ot 



A. (Hypholoma) 



fascicularis. 



Umbonate and Fibrillose 

 Pileus of an Hebeloma. 



Subumbonate Fibrillose 

 Pileus of a species of 

 Hebeloma, 



Fig. 219. Pileus clothed with innate 

 hairy scales of Pholiota aureus 

 (magnified). 



trudging onwards, first on one side and then on the 

 other of this road, another central station is reached 

 — "The Wake Arms," and where it is crossed by 

 the road from Waltham Cross to Theydon Bois ; 



Fig. 2 1 6. Mealy 

 subsquamulose 

 Pileus of Clitocybe 

 laccatus. 



Fig. 217. Clitocybe laccatus. 



and on sitting down next day to examine and sort 

 the contents of our pockets, hat, and vasculum, we 

 felt fairly bewildered at the sight of the spoils, and 

 hurried multitudinous entries in our note-book. 



To take them scientifically, and in proper order of 

 sequence, let us commence with the Agaricini ; 

 those with a gilled or plated hymenium : these, of 

 course, were the most numerous, and were easy to 

 separate from the rest. Referring to " Berkeley's 

 British Fungology," we find that they are all included 

 in fifteen genera, of which some three or four are 

 rare, or have but few representatives in England ; on 

 the other hand, the Agarics proper are so numerous 

 as to comprise twenty-seven sub-genera, arranged in 

 five sections, according as the colour of the spores 

 is white, salmon-coloured, tawny or ferruginous, 

 purplish or brown, and black. The characteristics 



