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Hereford, when a general rush for dry clothes took place. In the evening a 

 reception was held at "The Haven," when the Rev. J. E. Vize read a paper on 

 "Polycystina," and exhibited specimens. Dr. Bull made a few observations 

 "On the Solution of a New Zealand Botanical Mystery," and showed specimens 

 of Torruhia Robertsii in fine fruit. 



On Wednesday, October 7th, the mycologists being joined by Dr. M. C. Oooke, 

 made an excursion to Dinmore Hill. Special instructions had been given to search 

 for and to find two species which had not previously been met with in these 

 HereforJshire forays, viz., Boletus purpurascens and Cortinarius dibaphus. The 

 former was soon found — two specimens only, and they somewhat passi, but still 

 characteristic — the latter in abundance in all stages and in excellent condition. This 

 remarkable Cortinarius has certainly during the past sixteen years never previously 

 put in an appearance at Hereford. So large and so well marked a plant could not 

 have been overlooked, with its brownish-yellow, viscid pileus surrounded by a purple 

 margin, its lemon-yellow gills and stem, with its marginate bulb, all of which charac- 

 ters render it a fungus once seen never to be forgotten. One point about it, however, 

 is not quite clear. Fries placed it in the third group of the Scauri, "with ferrugin- 

 eous yellow or fulvous gills " ; but in his description he speaks of the gills as being 

 purpurascenti-ferrugineus, yet he quotes Saunders and Smith, t. 10, but which 

 figure, like our Hereford specimens, is devoid of any purple tint about the gills. 

 The inference is that the purpurascenti must be a clerical error. Dinmore yielded 

 its usual crop of good things, which have so often before been enumerated, including 

 Thelephora clavularis, Hygrophonis arbustivus, and a Peziza that puzzled Mr. 

 Phillips. In the evening the mycologists were entertained at dinner by Mr. C. G. 

 Martin, the President of the Woolhope Club, after which Mr. Phillips read in the 

 Woolhope Club-room his very interesting paper on " Puffballs," illustrated with 

 drawings of many species. He expressed his opinion that Lycopcrdon perlatum 

 was undoubtedly British, and that under L. saceatum. we include a good species, 

 L. excipulifcvme, the spores of L. saceatum being larger, and have a peculiar out- 

 line. They are often spoken of as echinulate, but this is hardly the case, as these 

 are not so much covered by spines as surrounded by a paler irregularly pointed 

 outline. It is to be hoped Mr. Phillips will publish his paper in extenso, with 

 figures of the spores of the different species. 



On Club-day, Thursday, October 8th, a strong muster of members, including 

 four ladies, assembled at the station and took train for Leominster, in spite of 

 threatening weather, which developed into a sharp rain on our arrival at the last- 

 named place. Nothing daunted, carriages were taken, and a start made for 

 Risbury Camp. During the ride the clouds broke, the blue sky became visible, 

 and the sun shone out. Unversed as the present writer is in the mysteries of 

 archaeology, his impressions of the camp are worth but little, but it seemed to be 

 protected by very muddy approaches, to produce few fungi, and to be full of 

 apples ! The i^arty now gracefully slid down the grassy slopes of the camp, and 

 made for Hell Hole Dingle, through which we were to walk to Hampton Court. 

 But across the Dingle ran a stream, over which the party had to cross on a weir. 

 To effect this comfortably tiie order was given for the young and able-bodied each 



