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ishment it created at the railway station ; the suspicious remarks which rough 



country youths did not hesitate to employ ; and the yells of sundry small boys 

 whenever it became exposed to their gaze ;— all this, and more, might be recorded, 

 had we not other and more prosaic details still to furnish of the results of the 

 various expeditions. 



Wednesday, October 3rd, maintained, as it was bound to do, the juicy fea- 

 tures of the Woolhope excursions. The morning dawned, if it could be called a 

 dawn, in a universal sombre grey, which matured into a persistent drizzle, with 

 now and then an earnest downpour, and was in all respects a miserable day. 

 Some of the enthusiasts, encased in waterproofs and leggings, made their way to 

 the station to procure tickets for Dinmore, but only four of them succeeded in 

 overcoming their prejudices and entered the train, the rest returned to the Mu- 

 seum, to their pipes, to their drawing materials, or to their correspondence, and 

 the elaboration of excuses for staying in town. Those who went, brought back 

 Hygrophorus discoideus, and Anarieus (entolonia) lividus, and some other interest- 

 ing species. Then arose a vigorous discussion on the meaning to be attached to 

 the word "lividus," the majority holding to an opinion which had to be abandoned 

 the next day, after finding and consulting a Latin Dictionary/. Then it was dis- 

 covered that "lividus" and "luridus" had got mixed up, and the wrong word 

 came to the top. At eight o'clock, after several private dinner-parties, the my- 

 cologists were assembled again in solemn conclave, with the President in the 

 chair, in the Woolhope Club Room, at the Free Library, to hear two papers read 

 on the chemical constituents of fungi, and a new way to battle with the Potato 

 disease. Apropos of the latter a waggish visitor's suggestion, that the cause of 

 the Potato disease was the ro-tatory motion of the earth, was not accepted by the 

 commen-tator who ha'l explained Jensen's process. 



Thursday, October 4th, was the Club day, and opened with sunshine, which 

 was fairly maintained throughout the day. The excursion was undertaken in 

 waggonets, and considerable delay was experienced by those who liad filled the 

 first two vehicles, and looked down for half-an-hour on their disappointed friends, 

 standing in melancholy expectation on the pavement, waiting for the advent of 

 the third vehicle. This was a source of great delight to the small boys in the 

 streets, and the chambermaids at the windows, who looked up to, or down upon, 

 the party with as much interest as if they had been a regiment of soldiers on 

 parade, or a batch of " Invincibles " starting for the county gaol. 



The Club excursion was first made to Haywood Forest, through which the 

 call of the whistle and the familiar " For-ward ! " hurried the party to the com- 

 mon beyond, where the carriages were again in waiting. Anaricus Bloxami and 

 Cortinarius Bulliardi were amongst the most cherished of the "finds." After a 

 very pleasant drive the party again dismounted at Bryngwyn, and roamed over 

 the park without securing any fungi, or anything else, except the pleasure of wait- 

 ing for a truant member of the party who unfortunately missed his way, and was 

 found to be absent when all the rest had comfortably seated themselves in the 

 vehicles. Notwithstanding a considerable amount of vigorous shouting, whist- 

 ling, and the dispatch of a mounted horseman in pursuit, it was some time before 



