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wore found. Here also Ilfllchorus viridis was seen. Turning tlien 

 to the lot't the railway-cutting was soon reached and the Tunnel 

 "Woods were entered. First the banks of chalk which were formed 

 when the new tunnel was made, and which have considerably 

 altered the aspect of this part of tlie wood, were carefully examined, 

 and were found to he particularly fruitful in mosses, one very rare 

 species, Sclii/eria paucifolia, being found by Dr. Braithwaite growing 

 on nodules of chalk. Some time was spent in collecting mosses, 

 lichens, and fungi, and then the adjoining Nascott Wood was 

 entered. It was now however getting dusk and it was difficult to 

 see any cryptogamic plants but the more conspicuous fungi when 

 this wood was reached, so that it could not be explored. 



The fungi were noticed to be not nearly so abundant as usual, 

 this not being a good season for them elsewhere as well as here, 

 owing probably to the rainfall having lately been below the average 

 for this time of the year, and therefore the wood not being sufficiently 

 damp to favour their growth. However, although they were not 

 seen in very large numbers, the number of species observed was 

 considerable, the following being a list, communicated by Dr. 

 Cooke, of species seen in addition to many of those recorded at the 

 previous cryptogamic meeting. 



Htmexomycetes. Agaricus {GaJcra) hypnorum, Batsch. 

 Agaricus [Amanita) excelsus, Fr. „ {Naucoria) semiovbiculans, 



„ ,, vaffiiiafiis, Bull. [Bull. 



,, (Armillaria) melleits,\nh\* „ {Psallio(a) silvaticus, Sch.* 



,, {Tricholoma) resp/oidens, Fr. ,, lStropharia)fcruguw.ii(s,GuT. 



,, ,, albus, Fr. ,, {Uypholoma) storea, Fr. 



„ {Clitocybe) cermsatus, Fr.* ,, [Psalhyra) conopileus, Fr. 



,, ,, i>/fii)idibitlifor»u's, Sch.* Cfiprbnis fuscescois, Fr. 



,, [Colli/bia) fusipes, Bull. Cortinarim caninus, Fr. 



,, ,, dryophilus. Bull. PaxUla^ iiivnlutu.s, Fr. 



,, {Mycena) alcalinus. Fr. Hygrophorus oUvaceo-albus, Fr. 



,, galopus^ Schrad. Lactarius vellereiis, Fr. 



,, tintinnabuluK, Fr. Boletus chrysenteron, Fr, 



,, ,, tenerrii)u<s,'B.&.^r. I'olyporus versicolor, Fr. 



,, ,, jilopes. Bull. ,, vaporarius, Fr. 



,, ,, striatiis, Fr, Radulum orbiculare, Fr. 



,, {Omphalia) griseus, Fr, Stereum sanguinolentum, Fr. 



,, (Pleurotus) acerosus, Fr. Clavaria grisea, Fr. 

 ,, (Pluteus) cervinus, Sclifeff. ,, rugosa, Bull.* 



,, \Pholiota) sqiiarrosHs, Miill, Ascomycetes, 



,, [Inocybe) geophyllus, Sow. Helvella crispa, Fr.* 



The following is a list of the lichens, recorded by Mr. Holmes, 

 who says that "they seem by no means well developed on the 

 trees, and are chiefly such as are usually found in a dry atmosphere 

 not very free from smoke." 



COLLEMACEI. 



Collema pulposum, Bernh. 



LiCHENACEI. 



Cladonia pyxidata, Fr. 



,, f areata, Htfm. 

 Evernia pruiiaslri, L. 





