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The best head-quarters will be found in Schladming, Trieben, and Admont. I 
observed a great variety of Cortinarii near Admont, and an abundance of Kalch- 
bremer’s Boletinus cavipes, on the Bosenstein mountain, near Trieben. 
I noticed this curious fungus also in the Zillerthal, and shall never forget the 
feast, my friend Evers, of Innsbruck, and myself enjoyed at Breitlahnen, in that 
valley. We had gathered a large quantity of a small Alpine form of puff-ball, 
and had them boiled with the soup for dinner. What trouble we had to induce 
the landlady to cook them, and how great her astonishment when both she and 
some fellow-travellers found them delicious. 
I shall also not forget being made very unwell at Primiero, by partaking of a 
dish of Chantarelles, of ancient date, which the host had prepared to please his 
mycological guest. 
Respecting the edible fungi of Tyrol, all I could ascertain was that Cantha- 
relus cibarius was the only fungus eaten. All others, even Boletus edulis, which 
is abundant, are unknown as articles of food. 
In conclusion, I beg to inform anyone visiting the Alps, that Bredasola is pub- 
lishing figures of the Tyrolese fungi. He lives in the Val de Rabbi, near Trient. 
T have little doubt but that the new and interesting fungi he figures, may be found 
in the more accessible localities described in this paper. 
PROTOCOCCUS. 
By Rev. J. E. Vize. 
Accorpixe to some authors Protococcus takes its name from two Greek words 
signifying first or elementary fruit, from the idea that its structure is elementary ; 
according to others, from first berry, from its likeness to a berry. It is in reality 
one of the unicellular Alge, which are plants consisting of single cells, either com- 
bining together in few numbers in groups, or solitary. There is still much im- 
perfect knowledge with regard to these minute plants, inasmuch as their structure 
is very much like the organisms of the Palmellaceee, which are Alga, and also like 
the gonidia of some lichens, so much so as to be scarcely distinguishable from 
them. Much research is needed to make their life history from beginning to end 
more satisfactory than it is, their very minuteness making the study complicated. 
In Protococcus viridis, which is found all through the year growing on the 
trunks of old trees, less frequently on walls, we have the frond of the Alga in its 
ordinary form, which is more or less rotund. It exists in two states,—there is the 
active motile form, and there is the resting one. In the former of these—the 
motile form—the plants increase by subdivision, and may be found in an active 
state. Amongst them are some which have cilia, generally speaking two cilia, 
which are very much like zoospores: they are projected through the gelatinous 
cellulose case which originally enclosed them. They move about with the cilia 
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