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humilis, Plate XV II, Jig. 17), first greeted us among 

 furze and heath upon the Wilts Downs. It is a tall, 

 stately fungi, three or four inches across, and attractive 

 from its elegance of form. 



The same woods furnish abundance of a small 

 Agaric, belonging to the next, or Clitocybe group, which 

 is attractive from its fragrant odour (C odorus). It 

 grows among moss, is of a pale greenish mouse colour, 

 and measures about two inches across. The Bell-shaped 

 Agaric (C. Cyathiformis) — of similar size, but slenderer 

 growth, its cap depressed into a funnel shape — rewarded 

 our search in the woods and field borders about Callander. 

 It is a curious species, from the uncommon form of the cap. 



The little Purple Agaric (Colybia laccatus) is a fre- 

 quent ornament of our woods, its rich tint contrasting 

 beautifully with the fresh green of the surrounding moss 

 (Plate XVII, Jig. 2). Its colour varies much, though 

 always rich — now amethyst purple, now maroon. We 

 first found it on that memorable excursion to Sheerwater, 

 which occasioned our beginning the study of fungi. 



In the Collybia group the margin of the cap is at first 

 rolled in, but this feature often disappears early in the 

 life of the plant. The Hollow-stemmed Collybia (C. 

 fusipes, Plate XVII, Jig. 3), I first saw growing in a 

 cluster from the bole of a tree, in the Hope Park, Edin- 

 burgh. Of course I was all anxiety to procure the 

 specimen, but the ground where these trees grew was 

 fenced off with park paling, and I saw no chance of reach- 

 ing the fungi with my own hands. Presently, however, 

 a "laddie' appeared, .and readily undertook to scale the 

 fence and seize the objects of my desire ; though what 



