FUNGI.. 281 



 



request from Mr. Broome for more of the orange beads ; 

 they being plants of the ground Thelobus, a fungus not 

 recently found in Britain. Of course I was proud in the 

 extreme ; but for many days illness and stress of weather 

 prevented my repairing to the fir wood. Snow came, and 

 botanical interests were necessarily held in abeyance ; 

 the snow lay long, but when softer airs had melted it 

 even from the black fir wood, I searched again, but not 

 one trace of the precious orange beads could I find ! 



