96 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [March 



has been called, were met with — one nearly two feet in diameter, 

 and weighing ten or twelve pounds — on nine diiferent trees, and 

 had the search for it been continued many more might doubtless 

 have been found. 



Scattered about in proper hunting order the members climbed 

 the hill. They were specially directed to look out for the very 

 rare Cantharellus cinerens, which was found here three years 

 since, but which Berkeley marks as "not found since the days of 

 Bolton." It was not found, however. The delicate Agaricus 

 prunulus, ' vegetable sweetbread,' as it has been termed, was 

 met with, together with A. campestris, A. arvensis, and its 

 smaller and more delicate variety A. cretaceus, all, of course, 

 edible ; also the small puflC-ball, Lycoperdon gemmatum, the 

 large rough-stemmed Boletus scaler, the buff gilled Russula 

 alutacea, the less common R. vesca, and the Parasol Agaric 

 (J., procerus). Some others were collected here not quite so 

 good in character. Some fine pale orange specimens of this last 

 poisonous Agaric were gathered, which at first sight resembled 

 the delicious edible ' orange milk Agaric,' so highly recommended, 

 and figured in the Club's Transactions last year. It had, how- 

 ever, a shaggy woolly margin, without the orange gills and the 

 orange -coloured milk. 



As the hour for dinner approached, the party remounted and 

 returned to Hereford. Some time was devoted to an examination 

 of the spoil, and then twenty-one sat down to partake of a dinner 

 which fitly closed the ' Foray among the Funguses.' 



With the fish and the soup came the first novelty in the form 

 of Oreades ketchup. It was good with either, and as guest after 

 guest helped himself to an experimental taste, it was curious to 

 hear one after the other ask again for " that bottle." It was a 

 brilliant success. Hie every one with a regard for table luxuries, 

 and that should include all sensible people ; hie to your lawns 

 and grassplots and gather while still you may, the pretty little 

 fairy-ring Champignon (^Maras7nius oreades', and make for 

 yourselves a ketchup, that is as superior to the ordinary vile 

 black compound you meet with as champagne is to gooseberry. 

 Don't you know it ? Then get a member of the "Woolhope Club 

 to point it out to you, or better still, borrow the last volume of 

 the Club's Transactions, and there you will find a pretty coloured 

 picture of it, and receipts, moreover, for cooking it in many ways. 

 Have a care to keep down the spice, however, for if in too great 



