REFERENCES TO PLATE 



FORMS OF FAIRY RINGS. 



No. 1. — An irregtilar ring of Ag. (i^otrupus, reclucctl from a drawing by Dr. 

 Bull, of a ring on Wickliff House lawn, Breinton. Diameter of the lower part 

 22ft. Gin. In one part within tliis ring an apple-tree was growing. The spot is 

 marked by a section of the bole. 



No. 2. — A very large semi-ring of Afjaricus personatus, very much like a 

 sickle, no less than 51ft. in diameter. Grass in the ring half concealing the 

 agarics within it. At Norton, near Worcester, in autumn. 



No. 3. — Bare ring of Ag. r/amhosm, after the agarics had died off. A mole- 

 hill evident at one end of the incomplete ring. The area was occupied by the 

 same grass as the pasture around. At Bradford Abbas, Dorsetshire. Longest 

 diameter 15ft. 



No. 4. — Assemblage of arcs or portions of rings, two of them bare with 

 groups of A. Oreadcs, and one filled with coarse glass, the latter evidently pro- 

 ceeding from a mole-hill. At St. John's, near Worcester. 



No. 5. — Very lai'ge double ring of green gi-ass in a pasture at Bransford, 

 Worcestershire. Pleasured along the exterior, this was 90ft. in extent. Bare of 

 agarics, although early in autumn. 



No. 6. — A comet ring or waving line of luxuriant grass, having mole-heaps 

 at either extremity, and no agarics within it. 



N.B. — In all the above forms of rings there was evidence of the operations 

 of the mole, except in No. 1, the attention of Dr. Bull not having been then 

 called to molar work. 



