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ostreatus) which grow bracket-like from the boles of 

 trees ; but none of these have rewarded our search. 

 Only the Dingy Pleurotus (P. applicatus, Plate XVII., 

 fig. 8) graces our collection. It is very minute, dark, 

 dingy purple, and stemless. All these groups of Agarics 

 have white spores. 



We now come to a series with salmon-coloured spores, 

 the first group of which, Yolvaria, is characterised by a 

 distinct wrapper as in our old friends, the Amanitas. Of 

 this group we have been able to procure no specimen. 



The Pretty Plum Agaric (Clitopilus prunulus), of pure 

 white colour and esculent qualities, belongs to one of the 

 early groups in this series. The folds are turned down 

 the stem; and though white at first, like the rest of the 

 plant, they become flesh coloured as soon as the spores 

 are ripe. We have found it in woods in Wilts and Kent. 



No Agaric is more attractive in its season than the 

 Golden Pholiota. The group to which it belongs is the 

 first of the brownish sjDore series. 



I This fungus (P. aureus, Plate XVII, Jig., 9) is fre- 

 quently found about decaying stumps, its brilliant 

 yellow contrasting advantageously with the dead hue of 

 the wood, or the green mosses adhering; to it. It is one 

 of the most frequent of our fungi. 



The Hebaloma group are distinguished by a scaly 

 stem, but we have not been able to find any of its 

 representatives. 



The Naucoria group has an hemispherical cap. One 

 little brown species (N. melinoides) is very common on 

 lawns, its head no larger than the end of a child's finder. 

 Another, the Branny Naucoria (N. furfuraceus) frequents 



