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known by its very narrow and extremely crowded gills) were found. Luncheon 
was partaken of under the Oaks, with zest and jest, especially the latter, for which 
the writer came in for his share far too cruelly to bear repetition. The party then 
made for Sunney Gutter, a vile name, traducing a most lovely stream, at which 
the party quenched their thirst. A few minutes later Mr. Phillips gave the 
“view halloo” to ‘*Strobilomyces /” around two specimens of which the company 
gathered, gazing with subdued enthusiasm, as the Rev. J. Stevenson gathered 
this rare fungus which no southern hand was allowed to cull. A few minutes 
later Lactarius lilacinus was added to the list of finds, and almost directly after- 
wards L. vietus, a plant bearing some resemblance to ZL. glyciosmus, but easily dis- 
tinguished from it by the absence of odour and other characters. Satisfied with 
their day’s gathering, the mycologists started for Ludlow. On leaving the wood, 
a brilliant specimen of the amethyst variety of Agaricus laccatus, was found pinned 
to some railings, and attached to it a record that ‘‘Fortey and four others were 
gone on.” How like in some respects, yet how unlike in others, to the memorable 
record left by Captain Crozier, of the Erebus and Terror expedition, which was 
found years afterwards by McClintock in the dreary Arcticregions.! But mycolo- 
gists are not given to melancholy. On the road to Abbey Villa, Mr. Bagnall was 
met ; he had unfortunately missed the party, and had wandered all day by himself 
in the Whitcliff Woods. His basket was turned out upon the lawn, when it was 
discovered that he had lighted upon some very interesting species, including the 
wonderful Lactarius uvidus, and the rare Agaricus stans. Messrs. Fortey once 
more regaled the famishing fungologists with a meal they persist in calling a tea, 
but which is in reality a substantial dinner in disguise. During the meal, a gentle- 
man from Birmingham who shall be nameless, mentioned in confidence that on 
the road down he had pre-conceived portraits of the mycologists present, but the 
only individual who came up to his ideal was Mr. Broome—as for the writer of 
these lines, he had expected to find a venerable old gentleman, with a flowing 
silvery beard, after the style of old Parr it is presumed; but he was grievously dis- 
appointed when he saw—well—only the writer in proprid persond. 
In the evening there was a reception at Dr. Bull’s, at which the President, 
Thomas Blashill, Esq., exhibited some beautiful drawings of microscopic objects, 
and a paper was read on some experimental researches upon the “ Physiology of 
the Uredines,” which provoked an animated discussion on heterecism. This was 
followed by a most valuable paper by Dr. Wharton on the ‘‘ Meanings of British 
Birds’ Names,” and one by Mr. Vize on “‘ Gleocapsa sanguinea.” 
Next day Dinedor Camp and Rotherwas Wood were hunted; the rare Agari- 
cus bulbiger, however, was not to be found, although other interesting fungi were, 
including Lactarius trivialis and Puccinia circee, with its two forms of teleutospore. 
In the evening a meeting was held at the Free Library, when the work of naming 
and arranging the specimens was gone into with zeal. 
On Thursday—the Club day—working mycologists were by 8 a.m. busy 
sketching and studying the specimens in the room. The collection was not by any 
means so large as it often is, but some very rare and interesting species were 
represented, amongst which were Boletus cyanescens, Polyporus intybaceus, giganteus, 
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