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jjeasons," whose descriptions and reflections have never been exceeded— 

 " These as they change, Almighty Father, these, 

 Are all thy varied works ; the rolling year 

 Is f uU of thee ; forth in the pleasing spring 

 Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. — 

 Thy bounty shines in autumn unconflned. 

 And spreads a common feast for all that lives." 



Thus Nature is ever progressive, and fertile in expedients that every disturbance 

 of the soil shall bring its recompense in fresh vegetation that shall take its turn 

 in the march of utility. The air abounds with the sporules of cryptogamoua 

 plants ready, like birds of prey, to pounce down upon any place that will afford 

 them a footing. The mole has his Uving to get and his duties to perform, and 

 he makes his gyrations in the meadows accordingly ; but thus in his train a new 

 creation follows, and though unconscious of the result of his capricious circlings, 

 yet, as was said of the good fairy of old, his track is marked by a sudden effusion 

 of beauty to the eye and a product of utUity to the human family. 



As a supplement to this paper, it may be well to subjoin a, list of those 

 Fungi that havs been noticed as inhabitants of Fairy Kings, either by myself, 

 or recorded by other observers. 



AGAEICS. 



Agarkus (Trkholoma) gambosus, Fr. 



A. (Trkholoma) personatus, Fr. 



A. (Trkholoma) grammopodius, Bull. 



A, (CUtocybe) giganteus, Sow, 



A. (CUtocybe) infundibuUformis, Schceff. 



A. (CUtocybe) geotrupus, Bull. 



A. ( CoUybia) confluens, Pers. 



A. (Heboloma) crustuliniformis, Bull. 



A. (PsalUota) arvensis, Schceff. 



Hygrophorus virgineus, Fr. 



Lactarius piperatus, Fr. 



Cantharellus cibarius, Fr. 



Marasmius urens, Fr. 



Marasmius Oreades, Fr. 



OTHEE FUNGI. 



I observed once in Haywood Forest, Herefordshire, in company with Dr. 

 Bull, a considerable quantity of Hydnum repandum, that occupied a long waving 

 line that appeared to be due to the operations of a mole. The Giant Puffball 

 (Lycoperdon giganteum), has also been occasionally found occupying a ring, 

 as well the commoner species L. gemnmtum. The various kinds of Fungi found 

 in Fairy Rings, surely suggest that they occupy a figure made by some other 

 cause than the supposed centrifugal arrangement of the sporules from a central 

 agaric. 



