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Monday, October 1st, was announced on the programme as the day for the 

 arrival of visitors, and the majority followed the progrramme ; those who did not, 

 met the excursionists at Lndlow the next morning. Amongst these were :— 

 Messrs. Broome, Bucknall, Carlyle, Cooke, Canon Du Port, Rev. W. Houghton, 

 Messrs. Howse, Lees, Phillips, Plowright, Soppitt, Wharton, and Rev. J. E. Vize. 



The excursion for Tuesday was by rail to Ludlow for Moor Park and Wood- 

 eve's coppice. Omnibuses in waiting at the station conveyed the party to their 

 destination and awaited their return. The hunting ground was a good one. almost 

 imlimited in extent, and the day as favourable as could be desired. By Two p.m. 

 all the baskets were filled to overflowing, and their owners making the best of 

 their way in one direction— towards Moor Park, where Mrs. Foster had kindly 

 provided a most substantial luncheon, to which the assembled party did ample 

 justice, although a peremptory signal to be " ready in ten minutes," which fell 

 like a thunderbolt in the middle of the repast, startled some of the novices, who 

 were not prepared to experience a practical joke from the " presiding genius " at 

 such a solemn moment. After this interlude followed a stroll through the gardens 

 and park to regain the carriages, and pick up the stray specimens to be met with 

 in the way. At the entrance to the park flourished quite a colony of some twenty 

 or thirty specimens of Boletus satanas, some of them being eight or nine inches in 

 diameter, and over them some discussion was proceeding, when a member of the 

 party was discovered staggering along under the weight of a mass of Pobiporus 

 giganteus, nearly 30 inches in one direction and 2 feet in the other. The "pre- 

 siding genius " bore aloft another smaller, but somewhat neater specimen of the 

 same Polyporus, while others of the party followed bearing large masses of Pulij- 

 porun dryinus, and other fungi. One after the other, the three waggonets were 

 loaded up, and started on the return journey to Ludlow. The "presiding genius" 

 occupied a box-seat on the front carriage with his own open basket at his feet 

 filled with the treasures collected during the day. As this, which was the fore- 

 most vehicle, rushed down a steep hill close to Ludlow, the occupier of the box- 

 seat turned round sharply to see what had become of the other two carriages, 

 when, by some unlucky mishap his foot disturbed the equilibrium of the basket, 

 and the whole contents fell like a shower of toadstools into the road, some under 

 the wheels, others broken by the fall — here a cap and there a stem—" white fungi 

 and red, brown fungi and grey, mingled, mingled, mingled, in an unexpected 

 way." Going rapidly down hill, with the "skid " on, and other carriages follow- 

 ing, there was no hope of stopping till at the bottom, and then, at length, some 

 one returned to collect the basket, and gaze upon the ruins of Boletus, Agaricus, 

 Hygrophorns, Cortinarius, Strohylomyces, and Crab Apples, which imparted to the 

 road a most picturesque appearance. 



Soon after five o'clock, the entire force collected around the hospitable table 

 of the Messrs. Fortey, enjoying a high tea, and looking back with equanimity 

 upon the crowning disaster of the day. A graphic account might nevertheless be 

 written of the Herculean labours of Mr. Moore, as he struggled under the weight 

 and the responsibilty of the gigantic Polyporus, till it was safely deposited in the 

 Museum. How it travelled to the Ludlow station in a wheelbarrow ; what aston- 



