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A. (L.) Mastoideus; A. (L.) Acutcsquatnosus ; Afj. (L.) Cridatus ; Ay. 

 (ClUocybeJ odorus; avery fmo specimen of Ag. (C.J nehularis; Ay. ( Tricholoma) 

 nudus; Cantharellus aurantiacus ; Gomphidius viscidus ; Boletus scaler; Ly- 

 coperdon calatum ; L.gemmatum; L. pi/riforme ; und Scleroderma bovista. 



Amongst the Non-Edible class were many very interesting species. One was 

 an Agaric from Haywood forest, with a brown, or rather mouse-grey, silky 

 pileus, i)uik gills, and a brittle mouse-grey stem, covei-ed with fibrils. It proved 

 to be a species new to this country, the Agaricus (Entoloma) juhatus. The 

 Arjaricus (Tricholoma) cartilagineus in its normal form, a species which Mr. 

 Berkeley had only seen once before, when it was shewn to him by Dr. Badham. 

 This specimen was gathered in the woods of Mynde Park. The Ag. (Tricholoma) 

 rutiluns, from Abergavenny; Ag. (T.) grammopodius ; the brilliant scarlet 

 Peziza aurantia; a very magnificent specimenjof the Pobjporus giganteus, from 

 Whitfield ; a fine examiile of P. radiatus ; and another very beautiful of P. 

 rufescens; the Lcnzites flaccida ; and a good display of the interesting Bulgaria 

 inquinans, growing on oak bark, from Abergavenny ; a well-grown Panus 

 torulosiis; the Auricularia mesenterica; Ag. (Pluteus) umbrinus; some of the 

 very interesting Nidularim, which attracted miich attention, the Cyathus 

 striatus, the Crucibulum vernicosus, and the Spcehrobolus stellatus ; with 

 many other of the more ordinary kinds. 



Amongst the Poisonous Funguses exhibited by the Woolhope Club were 

 two fine crowded bunches of the beautiful Agaricus (Pholiota) squarrosus ; 

 the brilliant A. (P.) spectabilis ; several splendid si)ecimens of a Lactarius^ 

 which was thought to be a variety of vellereus, but which afterwards proved to- 

 be of a kind new to Biitain, the Lactarius controversus ; the Ag. (Amanita) 

 muscarius ; Boletus luridtcs; Bussula rubra; Ag, (Hypholormt) fascicularis, 

 a.n(\. Ag. (H.) sublaterities; Ag. (Collybia)dryophilus; ths Scleroderma vulgaris ; 

 A. (Triclialoma) stdphureus ; and some others. 



The collection which received the second prize was exhibited by Wor- 

 thington G. Smith, Esq., F.L.S., and was very fine. It was not so large as 

 that from the WooUiope Club, and fell somewhat short in the point of Edible 

 Funguses, but to the eye of a mycologist it possessed peculiar interest, and 

 showed that it had been collected with much scientific care. The fine specimen 

 of the Lcntinus vulpinus at once attracted the eye of the Kev. M. J. Berkely. 

 It is one of the rarest of British, or indeed of European funguses. There was 

 a very beautiful and interesting group of the Ag. ( Armillaria) melleus in its 

 rare and ringless form, presenting indeed so imusual an appearance as almost 

 to require the assistance of the taste to prove its identity. 



A brOJiant yellow variety of Agaricus muscarius and a collection of Starry 

 puff-balls, Geaster fimbriatus ; this species is exceedingly ciuious and when ex- 

 amined looks like a star-fish. In this collection also were exhibited "a group of 

 the curious Glavaria slricla and the singular gristly agaric, Agaricus (Pleurotus) 

 subijalmatus that may now and then be found growing on old timber ; with a 

 gl'oup of Paxillus involutus, and PJudlus impudicus in its egg state. Not the 



