FUNGI OF EXETEB. 18d 



whole plant covered with short down. These were growing in an orchid 

 block, in the stove at Coaver House, Sept. 1851. 



A. Fibula. Not common. Found amongst short mossy grass, on the lawn 

 at Coaver House, June 23rd, 1853. 



A. muralis. A great number of this species were growing on a mossy wall 

 on the Topsham road, through the winter of 1851 — 2. 



A. inconstans. Rare. I met with a tuft of this curious Fungus in the 

 grounds of Sir T. D. Acland, having called on the gardener to see the place, 

 Sept. 14th, 1853; and in walking round, a tuft of this caught my eye, growing 

 on an old elm stump sawn off nearly even with the ground. I have not seen 

 any before or since. 



A. ostreatus. On the stump of a beech tree at Bellare, Dec. 23rd, 1852. 

 Not common. 



A. Ulmarius. A splendid specimen or two I found on an elm stump in 

 Messrs. Veitches' Nursery, Aug. 30th, 1852; but have not seen any since, so 

 consequently consider it rare. 



A. stypticus. This is not a common species with us, though it appears to 

 be so in other places. I have only met with perhaps half a score specimens ; 

 and those were found on the pei'pendicular edges of flower beds on the grass, 

 probably springing from dead roots of grass that are cut through by the 

 edging knife. Sept. 1853. 



Exeter, Sept. 30<fe, 1854. 



INJURIOUS INSECTS, No. IV. 

 THE COMMON WASP. {VESPA VULGARIS, L) 



BY J. MC' INTOSH, ESQ. 



(Continued from page 34.J 



Before proceeding with the materials employed by the common Wasp in 

 the construction of its dwelling, it will, perhaps, not be amiss to lay before 

 the readers of The Naturalist some account of the destruction committed 

 by this insect on the productions of the horticulturist ; and, astonishing as 

 they may appear, they will be found in the whole to be pretty correct. 



In the "Illustrated London News" of the 20th of July, 1848, it is stated, 

 that Sir John Lubbock, Bart., of High Elms, Down Kent, having some time 

 since commissioned the North End schoolmaster to give a penny for every 

 Wasp brought to him, he had taken, in all, 1,600 Wasps, exclusive of those 

 that had been caught by various persons about Sir John's estate. Eveiy 

 Wasp destroyed is a nest annihilated, at this period of the year; and, 



